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  • SMES In Egypt, Jordan to Benefit from $500 Million in U.S. Loans

    The Overseas Private Investment Corp., an independent agency of the U.S. government, secured $500 million for a lending facility , of which half will be provided to Egypt and the rest to Jordan. OPIC will guarantee loans by local banks to SMEs, microfinance institutions and other approved borrowers. By filling in the gap in access to credit by SMEs in Jordan and Egypt, the initiative aims to spu...

    Source
    Devex News (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Uncategorized
    Region
    North Africa & Near East
  • Target: Top of the pyramid

    Mainstream food brands, which have long milked the bottom of the pyramid to drive volumes, are now eyeing the top end to build value. Last month, Hindustan Unilever’s coffee brand Bru stepped up its regular brew portfolio by bringing to market Bru Exotica, a super premium coffee in three variants: Brazil, Columbia and Kilimanjaro. GlaxoSmithKline’s Horlicks too bolstered its premium credentials with the launch of Horlicks Gold at a 30 per cent premium to the base variant, in sel...

    Source
    Business Standard (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Social Enterprise Spotlight: Just Markets For Ghana?s Women

    Three years ago Danielle Grace Warren had gone fishing. She was part of a mission to build fish farms in Ghana. These farms, it was hoped, would help generate badly needed income and jobs. The literally graceful and ballerina-like Warren, a creative writer, knew from her experience in Haiti where she had worked on economic development projects that income and jobs were the key to lifting the Ghanaians out of poverty. But they needed to be lots of income and jobs. That simply wasn’t possib...

    Source
    Forbes (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Agriculture, Health Care
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • LIBA Establishes India’s First Research and Innovation Center for BOP

    LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration), among India’s leading management institutes today announced the establishment of "Prof. C.K Prahalad Center for Emerging India’, India’s first research and innovation center focused exclusively on BOP marketing and among the early pioneers across the globe in this space. The center will be a key landmark to India’s growing BOP market estimated at 835 million and recognized as among the larges...

    Source
    India PRwire (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Restaurants Where You Only Pay What You Can Afford? A Visionary Way to Bring Good Food to the Poor

    If you were to only judge the world by watching the news, you’d think we had collectively lost all of our humanity, our intergrity. Neverending wars, devastating environmental disasters, punishing austerity measures... all of which impact the poorer among us more than the richer. Rare is the voice that speaks for the underprivileged. But, if you listen hard enough, you might just hear a little whisper out there in the distance. Among those voices, Pan...

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    AlterNet (link opens in a new window)
  • Heating Homes With Human Waste is Saving Lives and Tigers in Nepal

    Dirt gets a bad rap. I’m sitting on a dirt floor in Badreni, Nepal, in a home built largely of dirt (waddle and daub) and there’s nothing dirty at all about this place. I’m a guest in a biogas home--one of 7,500 the WWF has helped build to date and one of 40,000 that will dot this Nepalese landscape five years from now. A small but powerful blue flame whispers in the corner and brings light to the faces of my host family. That flame lights and heats the home; it also warms t...

    Source
    Fast Company (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Environment
    Tags
    waste
  • India’s Most Famous Investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Pledges to Give Away 25% of His Wealth

    MUMBAI: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India’s most famous investor, has pledged to give away 25% of his wealth during his lifetime. He is the fourth Indian businessperson - after Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar and GM Rao - to make a statement of intent to give away a substantial part of their personal wealth to philanthropy. Announcing this on Monday evening at an event organised by GiveIndia, a giving facilitator, the 51-year-old said he planned to route all his charity through his R Jhunjhunwala ...

    Source
    The Economic Times (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Agriculture
    Region
    South Asia
  • Five Maternal Health Innovations That Could Save Lives

    Every two minutes, somewhere around the world a woman dies in childbirth. Often, a lack of access to care, technology or medications causes these fatal complications. In an effort to reduce deaths of both mothers and infants at birth, teams from across the globe are competing in an innovation challenge held by the U.S. State Department and funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.* The field was narrowed from 77 finalists to 19 award nominees Friday at the Saving Li...

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    PBS (link opens in a new window)
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