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Nexthought Monday: Social Impact Bonds? An Innovative Mechanism for Social Change
Cut costs and increase effectiveness of social programs? Any government would probably sign up to a deal that combines both right away! And this is one of the key thoughts behind the Social Impact Bond concept developed and recently piloted by UK-based Social Finance. A closer look at how they work and what they could mean for social impact.
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Leading the Next Wave of Corporate BoP Engagement
Most multinational corporations (MNCs) just don’t find the social business at the BoP niche attractive yet - or at least not enough to hire a large consultancy to come figure out how to make it work for them. Those successful in developing financially viable solutions to social issues within a large organization are known as social intrapreneurs.
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Egypt’s 800-Billion Pound Gorilla
With an estimated 800 billion Egyptian Pounds ($136 billion) in domestic deposits, you’d think Egyptian banks should have plenty of loans and credit available for Egyptian small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs). Not quite; considering the fact that Egyptian government debt held domestically is nearly the same amount.
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Breaking New Ground: UM, Acumen Develop Social Entrepreneurship Course
In a new class (Acumen Fund @ UM: Leading Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship) offered this fall, the University of Michigan will be launching a curriculum co-developed with Acumen Fund on leading innovation through social entrepreneurship.
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’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises (Part 2)
The concept of an active social enterprise incubator is innovative, but has challenges. Markus Dietrich, one of the co-founders, emphasizes the importance of being adaptable and not imposing frameworks without taking into account the nuances of these markets. "At the BoP, if we do not co-create, we are not going to be successful," he said.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Benin Growing Pains for a Young Democracy
A day after the election in volatile Niger (where Seini Oumarou has emerged the winner) came the presidential election in one of the "star" democracies on the African continent. On March 13, the West African nation Benin went to the polls to continue a democracy born of dictatorship two decades ago. As the votes are counted, a look at the stakes.
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MBA Immersion in Rwanda, Building Sustainable Enterprises
It?s one thing to study a country such as Rwanda from afar; quite another thing to study it from the inside, as 22 MBA students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School did during a recent three-week project. Working from Kigali, students focused on medical supply, healthcare patient processing, energy and water/sanitation projects.
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NexThought Monday: It?s a Small World by Design- Let?s Make it a Healthy One
The fulcrum of design, both of technology and program innovations, was an ongoing theme throughout our Advancing Healthcare With the Base of the Pyramid series. We wanted to re-publish these 14-post series in a way that was easily readable and sharable. So, we?re posting the series in a Scribd presentation.
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