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Announcement: Second Edition of Stuart Hart?s Capitalism at Crossroads Released
NextBillion’s good friend and colleague Stuart Hart - of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University and Enterprise for a Sustainable World - has recently released the second edition of his book, “Capitalism at Crossroads.” The newly revised edition includes...
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BOP Innovation Helps Kids Breathe
In high-income countries, asthma is usually a nuisance, but among the rural BOP, asthma can be a costly and deadly disease for victims who are unable to access treatment locally.Eric Green, a medical student at Stanford University, traveled to Mexico last year as part of a group from his...
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Disruptive Innovations in Health Care ? Vote Now!
The “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” competition from Ashoka?s Changemakers - that Julia blogged about in July - is now in its last stage: the voting! There were about 300 projects that participated in this competition, ranging from microinsurance...
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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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