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100 Women Who Matter: Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Newsweek Pakistan’s Benazir Shah and Bisma Ahmad got down to business with five leading women entrepreneurs in Lahore recently to talk about the hard slog.
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Accion Launches Venture Lab, a Seed-Stage Investment Initiativefor Financial Inclusion Start-ups
Accion, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, today announced the launch of Venture Lab, an initiative dedicated to providing seed capital and management support to financial inclusion start-ups worldwide.The $10 million program will seek out companies that have completed research and development and are at the pilot/first-revenue stage. Investments will typically be in the range of US $100,000-$300,000, invested either as convertible debt or equity.
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In Chile’s Slums, A Lesson in How to Make Apps for Social Good
How many of the hundreds of thousands of mobile phone applications seek to do truly great things, such as lift people out of poverty or improve health care for the poor?
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Infographic: 2.6 Billion People Don’t Have A Safe Way To Poop
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t mince words (or pictures) when it comes to feces.
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Omidyar’s Jayant Sinha: Volatile Government Policy is a Deterrent to Investing
Jayant Sinha, partner and MD, Omidyar Network India Advisors, tells Dinesh Narayanan that government trying to micro-manage the economy is not good. Edited excerpts from an interview.
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Asian Innovation: Frugal Ideas Are Spreading from East to West
Multinationals are beginning to take ideas developed in (and for) the emerging world and deploy them in the West.
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All Wrong On Poverty & Aid
IT is our claim that the debates on poverty and aid have gone off the rails. On poverty, it is too narrow, quibbling about a few percentage points above or below some historical number.
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BoP Boom in Japan Part I
The year 2009 was referred to as “The first year of BoP in Japan”. Not only did the Japanese translation of the late Prof. Prahalad’s “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” received much attention, BoP market analyzation that focused on emerging markets in Asia and African countries gained wide recognition too.
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