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Reflections on Sankalp 2011: The Curious Case of Economic vs. Social Value
A lack of information infrastructure was a sentiment that reverberated across most many of the panel discussions at Sankalp 2011. Investors, entrepreneurs, corporate heads and government officials noted that to be truly inclusive to low-income household clients, social enterprises and corporate firms must strengthen bottom-up market intelligence.
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Friday Roundup ? 5-20-11: ’Leakage’ in India Gov.’s Poverty Programs
The World Bank on Wednesday issued a clarion call to India’s government: reform your public distribution system (PDS) and get the private sector involved. India spends 2 percent of its GDP on poverty alleviation programs, more than any other Asian country according to the World Bank. Still, "India is not getting the ’bang for its rupee."
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Sankalp 2011: Moving From Questions of ’How?’ To Examples of ’How To’
At India’s premiere forum for social businesses, I was encouraged to hear a familiar set of core challenges from both entrepreneurs and the investors. But, I also found myself feeling frustrated. We know which changes need to occur to spur continued growth in the sector, and yet we’ve still not figured out how to go about making them happen.
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An Emerging Platform: From Money Transfer System to Mobile Money Ecosystem
Mobile money is becoming an infrastructure backbone connecting clients with myriad financial service providers. Our investigation documented over 90 financial institutions - from small MFIs, and savings and credit cooperatives, to large banks and insurers - that are adding mobile money as a service delivery channel; and zero that were not.
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Friday Roundup – 5/13/11: Persisting Challenges around Agricultural Finance
Wrapping up a week with several agriculture-related announcements, events and opportunities.
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Laterite Aims to Build a Rock-Solid Business Layer in Rwanda
While Rwanda’s GDP has averaged 6.6% growth over the last four years, the business infrastructure to support new investment and government economic policy, is still trailing behind the surge. Launched in February by Sachin Gathani and Dimitri Stoelinga, social venture Laterite aims to address that need and spin off new businesses in the process.
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Making a World of Difference this Mother?s Day
We know that extremely cost-effective investments allow more children and mothers to survive and thrive - from birth to early childhood education. This year, Save the Children partnered with Link TV’s ViewChange.org to create a documentary that takes a global tour of motherhood, while highlighting some of the remarkable approaches to change.
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Friday Roundup ? 5/6/11: How ’Flexible’ Should Profit/Nonprofits Be?
Two bills that have been introduced in the California Legislature that would carve out two new business/nonprofit hybrid designations.One would create so-called "flexible-purpose corporations," while the other would designate B corps. But for nonprofits and charitable foundations, the change is disquieting.
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