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MFIs Seen as Way Forward to Boost Housing Supply
The World Bank is calling on microfinanciers to fund housing projects in Kenya to meet the high demand for affordable homes in the low-end market. The Bank said Kenya should take cue from India’s housing microfinancing concept that has already seen development of 20,000 homes for low income earners and is looking to deliver 500,000 units in a few years. Speaking during the launch of the Housing Finance report in Nairobi, Simon Walley of the World Bank said: "We need to w...
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Friday Roundup – 2/25/11: Exploring the Link between Mobile Money and mHealth
Mobile money and healthcare for the poor have been prominent on the pages of NextBillion and the blogosphere in general this week. In light of these concurrent discussions, I’d like to point your attention to a thought-provoking report that bridges them and analyzes the links between mobile banking and mobile health.
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Bananas Over Corporate Governance: The 2011 Banana Skins Survey
In the recently published Microfinance Banana Skins 2011, subtitled "Losing its fairy dust," the third annual survey polls microfinance practitioners, investors, analysts, regulators, and other experts on the top risks facing the industry worldwide. Corporate governance is ranked the fourth highest risk - up from seventh a year ago.
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Introducing Our New Video Partner, ViewChange.org
When it comes to compelling videos valuable to the NextBillion audience, we just know it when we see it. Trouble is, it takes a lot of time to find relevant video on development through enterprise. Today, we start to remedy this quandary by teaming up with ViewChange.org, a new multimedia site that brings gripping stories from the developing world.
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Healthcare Series: Integrated Healthcare for the BoP, the Role of Enterprise, Government
Healthcare delivery continues to be a focus for governments as well as BoP organizations given the numerous gaps in providing services and products to the the poor. Living Goods is one enterprise working to sustainably deliver healthcare through micro-franchising to distribute low-cost products door-to-door in the developing world.
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Healthcare Series: Combining Facilities and Mobile Innovations to Deliver Better Care
Over the past year, I have become increasingly familiar with new mobile health tools that are often not a healthcare delivery system in and of itself, but a driver within that system - increasing the knowledge, efficiency, evidence-base, user experience, and accessibility.
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Advancing Healthcare: Reaching Into Rural Pockets With A Sustainable Model
In much of the developing world, the poor lack access to adequate health care and are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of illness. To explore this situation, new models for health care provision are being innovated. This post explores opportunities for private health care initiatives to address unmet needs in remote and rural India.
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Friday Roundup ? 2/18/11: A Special Offer for NB Readers from SOCAP/Europe
NextBillion is a proud media partner for SOCAP/Europe set for May 30-June 1. And this week Kevin Jones, a principal at Good Capital and co-founder of SOCAP, lets us know about a special early bird registration available for the NextBillion Network (AKA: You).
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