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Being Green at the Base of the Pyramid – It Just Makes Sense
Are people at the base of the economic pyramid more “green” than those at the top of the pyramid? There is an ongoing debate about this - and one of the key assertions made by those who answer “yes” to that question is that the BoP are better conservationists. Karen pointed...
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Al Hammond to Join Ashoka’s Leadership Group
Since joining the World Resources Institute in 1990, Al Hammond has been mixing things up.? Against steep odds, he built the World Resources Report into a best-in-class publication featuring extensive datasets of environmental indicators ? putting it on par with the World Bank’s World...
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Announcement: Unitus Entrepreneur in Residence Program
What: Unitus is seeking highly motivated social entrepreneurs to participate in the Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program for 2008. EIRs at Unitus spend up to one year launching their venture with the deep support of a dynamic community of socially-commited business professionals with...
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Trust, Mobile Banking, and Urban-Rural Remittances
During a recent workshop at the M-banking conference in Cairo, Egypt, a number of practitioners and interested parties discussed the state of mobile banking or-more properly-mobile transactions. One of the interesting insights that emerged comes from the experience of the Vodafone company...
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Can a Hospital Be a Breakthrough Innovation?
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University.By Sasha DichterLifeSpring’s...
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World Business and Development Awards Launched
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) have opened nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards...
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The Wealth of the Poor: How Ecosystem Services Benefit the Base of the Pyramid
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Happy Third Birthday, NextBillion
According to the National Network for Child Care, a typical three year-old is “full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world.” Yesterday, on the occasion of NextBillion.net’s third birthday,...
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