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Stories from Sarvajal’s Turf: Cartels
Cartels engage in price fixing, which can become a hindrance to any business. It becomes a challenging task to then engage in marketing while ensuring the security of your stakeholders as well as expanding the business. In the Stories from Sarvajal series, Rishabh describes his experience working at Sarvajal, a for profit water enterprise.
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International Development’s Dirty Little Secret
There is a curious phenomenon in international development-one that has been a taboo subject for many years. It eludes the calculations of economists, confounds private sector growth, and interferes with the proper functioning of public services. And it helps explain the following facts:
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Calling All BoP Innovators: $100K Up For Grabs!
Its that time of the year again; until October 5th 2010, the Lemelson-MIT program is accepting nominations for their 2011 Award for Sustainability.
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Health Market Innovations: A Knowledge Base for BoP Markets
Operation ASHA is an example of a health market innovation, a program that is helping to improve the way health markets operate so that more of the transactions between consumers and private health care providers actually lead to better health and financial protection for the poor. CHMI has launched a new site to track health market innovations.
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Spotlight on Microfranchising: A Look Into the Future of Social Enterprise
In the previous posts we introduced the iuMAP and discussed the challenges of scaling. For the next few weeks we will focus on microfranchising because it is a model used increasingly by social enterprises as they scale.
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Grassroots Business Fund Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
The Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) recently celebrated its second anniversary in a congratulatory mood. It has committed has committed $8M in equity, quasi-equity, debt, grant financing and technical assistance in its 25 investments covering 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and reaching almost half a million direct beneficiaries.
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Introducing iuMAP, Part 2 – Bottleneck: Why is It So Hard to Scale What Works?
This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed byAyllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. The purpose of the series is gathering feedback from the NextBillion community as the map unfolds, and share some of the information available on the tool.
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Frontier Investments: Focused on Mobile Banking, Microinsurance & Housing
ACCION International’s Frontier Investments Group is a double bottom line, venture equity fund focused on catalyzing a new approach to microfinance. It invests in new technologies and disruptive business models that can powerfully enhance the way financial services are delivered to the poor. Building upon microfinance’s success in "banking the unb...
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