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Meet The Entrepreneur Working To Challenge Nokia, Blackberry And Samsung In Africa
Alpesh Patel, a Ugandan-born entrepreneur, served as director of sales in Africa for Motorola before quitting the American telecommunications giant to launch Mi-Fone, an African mobile phone brand.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Bank Group Awards $2 Million to Social Enterprises in the States of Madhya Pradesh
Twenty social enterprises were awarded grants totaling $2 million by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG).
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- South Asia
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Connecting the Global Community of Leading Impact Investors: Global Impact Investing Network
Forbes interviewed Amit Bouri, the managing director at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing around the world.
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Video Contest Winner Colorado State University Shows Business Education Can Change the World
Business students from around the globe entered the Global Business School Network’s 3rd annual MBA+ Challenge Video Contest to show how they are making a difference in the developing world.
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‘We believe strongly in the power of entrepreneurs to transform Africa’
As of March 2013, Omidyar Network has committed more than $611 million to for-profit and non-profit companies that foster economic advancement, including entrepreneurship.
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Profit Meets Purpose: Why Social Entrepreneurship Suggests a Possible Future for Global Capitalism
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as "fireflies before the storm--all stirred up, throwing off sparks."
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Vaccines shunned by some as others struggle for access
For parents in Somalia, giving their children immunizations is not a choice.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaria resistance – it’s in the parasite’s genes
Tracking malaria resistance is imperative if it is to be prevented, say scientists who have been genotyping the parasites.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health