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What We’ve Got Here is a Failure to Communicate: Three Ways to Bridge the Academic/Practitioner Gap
Evidence-based policymaking requires a collaborative relationship between the worlds of research, policy and practice. But productive three-way communication between these actors is difficult, as vague prejudices can limit each side's ability to listen and learn. As every failure to communicate is a missed opportunity, Innovations for Poverty Action explores some ways to improve learning and communication.
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- Finance, Social Enterprise
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‘Inequality Limits Growth … and You Get What You Incent’: Takeaways from Day 1 of the SEEP Network’s Annual Conference
SEEP’s 2016 conference, themed “Expanding Market Frontiers,” continues today in Washington, D.C. NextBillion editor Kyle Poplin is there, and he compiled some of the things he found most interesting during Tuesday’s sessions.
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- Social Enterprise
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Our Full Slate of Videos with Impact Investing Thought Leaders from SOCAP16
The Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) for 2016 is a wrap. But if you missed any of our live one-on-one interviews with some of the newsmakers and trendsetters, we've got you covered. Here, in reverse chronological order, is our full lineup of Facebook Live interviews from last week.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Weekly Roundup: Hippies vs. Capitalists at SOCAP, Data (and Honors) for Social Entrepreneurs and a ‘What’ for WHO
We're betting that, even if you're a social entrepreneur, the new Thomson Reuters Foundation poll about your profession contains information you didn't know. Read more about the poll in this week's Roundup, along with “the most effective social entrepreneurs on the planet”; advice for WHO; and some final thoughts from SOCAP.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Live from SOCAP, Thursday
A recap of Day 3 at SOCAP16, with more Facebook Live interviews and an inside look at some interesting conversations about terminology and trust.
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- Social Enterprise
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Live from SOCAP, Wednesday
Team NextBillion – Scott Anderson and James Militzer – is reporting from SOCAP16 in San Francisco, conducing a series of Facebook Live interviews, attending sessions and meeting some of the many "doers" in attendance at the world’s largest conference on social enterprise and impact investing.
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- Social Enterprise
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Facebook Live from SOCAP
NextBillion will broadcast a series of interviews from SOCAP16 through Facebook Live, starting later today and continuing throughout the conference. Join us!
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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It’s the Ecosystem, Stupid: Exploring the “digital poverty stack” – Part 2
In the first post in this series, we proposed that donors and governments advance digital and financial inclusion by focusing more on creating public goods that enable the broader ecosystem, rather than on peripheral innovation in service delivery. In this second post, we discuss the implications of this shift and highlight some new efforts to move the fields in the right direction.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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