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GlobalGiving Decision Markets: Looking for Speculators!
GlobalGiving, the online charity marketplace that we’ve blogged about before, has launched a new “prediction market” online. They are looking for a “master speculators.” Much like eBay’s approach to online commerce, GlobalGiving is changing the way people give. We...
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A New Ashoka Fellow Seeks to Foster Green Markets in Mexico
After reestablishing New Ventures Mexico as its own independent organization, growing the program to incorporate a broader range of enterprise development services and creating a flashy new site worthy of a Webby (in our opinion), we at New Ventures global would have thought country director...
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“The Faces of Exclusion” Competition Winner Announced
The Inter American Development Bank (IADB) recently hosted a video competition called “The Faces of Exclusion.” The purpose of this competition was to expand beyond traditional research techniques in socio-economics; the IADB was particularly looking for documentary films that...
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Event: Ashoka’s Arthur Wood on Alternative Development Finance
Pablo pointed me to this event, which will be held tomorrow in DC:Top Down, Bottom Up: Searching for New Ways of Financing DevelopmentAugust 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m. The Center for Global Development. 3rd Floor, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC The funding of international...
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BOP Roundup
While browsing online this morning, I found a couple of new interesting ideas on the blogosphere worth mentioning on NextBillion today: The PSDBlog of the World Bank has touched the subject of biofuels (which I blogged on last week). They quote a very interesting article regarding world...
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Rising Ventures Investor Profile: Pramod Shedde
This Investor Feature is based on a recent interview with Pramod Shedde, a pioneer of India’s venture capital sector. Pramod discusses problems and prospects for sustainable SME investment in India and explains why many of the country’s green funds are getting it wrong.PDF Version of...
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Conference Report – Innovation for the Third Sector
Guest blogger Ben Powell is Managing Partner of Agora Partnerships. Last week, he traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to attend Innovation for the Third Sector: Sustainability and Social Impact, and filed this report. Read below for Ben’s observations of the rapidly growing Latin American social...
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Coincidence or Cross-Subsidy?
Here is an interesting case of serendipity where a product designed for a developing market has found application in a bigger and more mature market albeit in a niche space:For over a decade, Procter & Gamble has been distributing sachets of its PuR water purifying powder at cost in...
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