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Educating in Unforgiving Times
The cynical view of Corporate Social Responsibility is that large corporations do it just to make themselves look good, or to help in some way to improve revenue growth or the bottom line. The opposite is what you read on the company CSR reports or web pages. But used strategically, CSR can improve a company’s long-term growth while doing good.
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A Visit to IDEAAS: Clean Energy Solutions for Brazil’s Poor
A few weeks I had a great opportunity to visit Brazil, as part of a research project currently underway at New Ventures, aimed at benchmarking clean energy solutions for the base of the pyramid.
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Interview: Frank Pichel and Joseph Okyere on Unlocking Dead Capital through Land Titling
The lack of access to land and housing property rights has been deemed as one of the main obstacles to wealth creation and economic growth amongst low income populations. This is the area of focus of a project currently piloted by various private sector actors in Ghana...
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Reliable Access to Energy in Slums: There’s Hope
For the past months I’ve been researching market-based solutions for access to energy for low-income communities. I’ve come across everything from efficient cookstoves to rural cooperatives that have the potential to replicate and serve billions of people. Most exciting for me are the models that connect slum residents to power and gas grids...
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Emerging Markets Emerging Models Conference
Greetings from Delhi, where tomorrow I will attend the Emerging Markets, Emerging Models conference convened by the Monitor Group. If you have not yet heard of Monitor’s eponymous report, I urge you to take the time to read it. Staff writer Allen Hammond agrees, calling it "a must read!" Why is it a must read - and why is there a whole...
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Interview: Vijay Mishra Takes Sanitation Seriously
Recently, Vijay combined his interest in social causes with his writing ambitions to enter the BOP Learning Lab?s base of the pyramid essay competition with an essay entitled Promoting Sanitation, Empowering Communities. Vijay and co-author Amit Gupta took 3rd place in the competition; more importantly, they took a great step...
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Can Big Companies Drive Development through Enterprise? President Clinton and CEOs Weigh In
Yesterday I heard former US President Bill Clinton, as well as Coca Cola and ADM’s CEOs talk about ways big companies can "create value for business and society" on a panel moderated by Brookings Institution VP and former UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervi?. The panel was hosted by Brookings and the Clinton Global Initiative in Washington DC.
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BoP Career Paths: A Different Way to Educate India
In December 2008, I left my job at Barclays Capital to volunteer with Deepti Doshi, former Talent Manager at Acumen Fund and current CEO of an educational social venture called Ziqitza Education. The mission pursued by Ziqitza Education is to ensure that the innovative, participative and efficient teaching methods used in some elite schools...
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