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Financial Services for All Kenyans: Equity Bank and M-PESA Go Head to Head
Kenya is home to two extraordinary, but very different, financial service providers that have reached massive scale with unprecedented speed: Equity Bank and Safaricom’s M-PESA.
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Inspire, Empower, Connect: Celebrating Entrepreneurship in the MENASA region
Last week the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region (MENASA) saw a truly amazing ?Celebration of Entrepreneurship?. Entrepreneurs, business professionals, investors, academics and policy makers from across MENASA and beyond gathered in Dubai for this landmark event hosted by Abraaj capital, the regions largest private equity fund.
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CSR That Works: Interview with Hindustan Unilever’s former Chairman and MD, Vindi Banga
I had the unique opportunity to chat with Vindi Banga, former Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited, Unilever’s $3.9 billion subsidiary in India. Hindustan Unilever’s unique and effective CSR program employed 60,000 women entrepreneurs in villages to sell Unilever products at affordable prices to the base of the pyramid.
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Friday Roundup – 11/12/10: Updates on Tata’s Nano and Health Innovations
The Tata Nano, transportation for the base of the pyramid and mobile health innovations. That plus our weekly summary of posts and noteworthy opportunities.
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Defining (Social) Entrepreneurs Up
In a keynote address delivered to the Novartis Power of Partnering National Meeting this week, Valeria Budinich - Ashoka’s Vice President of the Full Economic Citizenship Initiative - presented the case for not only why (social) entrepreneurship is important for non-profits in the business of making a difference, but also why collaboration is key.
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Wrapping Up Net Impact on … Impact
If standards only aim to include output metrics, information elicited by these assessments will only indicate how well the business model operates based on if they performed as planned or not. This kind assessment does not address the larger question of how and potentially, why the business model is helping or hurting individuals.
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Civilizing the ’Wild West’ of Microfinance
Every emerging industry that has survived to transform the world has had to emerge from its "Wild West" phase ? a sort of testing period where ideas are thrown against the wall to see what sticks and what ends up bouncing right back in its face. After a few decades, perhaps microfinance has reached that defining moment.
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Passing the Entrepreneurship Test
Armed with brief assessment, borrower data spanning seven countries and eight languages, and the interest of financial institutions across Latin America and Africa, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) spun out of Harvard. In the coming months, the partnership aims to provide over 30,000 entrepreneurs with access to credit for the first time.
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