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Intellecap Announces Social Enterprise Awards
Nominations to Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards are now open. On offer for winners are opportunities to access impact investments, and advisory & mentoring services. The prestigious Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards are inviting nominations from high impact, early-stage social enterprises.
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10 Resolutions For Social Entrepreneurs In 2013
Momentum for social entrepreneurship is exploding. Every year, more and more people are working on businesses and organizations designed to improve the world. As we look forward to the rest of 2013 and the continued expansion of the field, here’s a list of resolutions that social entrepreneurs should be thinking about.
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The Bottom Three Billion: How One Clean Tech Company Serves the Poor
In 2007, a married couple with well-paid tech jobs in Singapore saw a prototype of a Japanese electric car and had a revelation. An electric car could be run for a tenth the price of a comparable one fueled by gas. The couple wondered: Could they create an electric motorbike for the masses in their home country of India?“This hit my mind like anything. This is the future,” Pachyappa Bala, the husband of the couple, remembered thinking at the time.
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Hudco may get $150-m line of credit from ADB next fiscal
Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd (Hudco) is in talks with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for $150-million financial assistance under the catalysing sustainable finance (CSF) facility.The proposed facility is a concept developed by the two and uses the bank’s financial intermediation loan modality.
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In India, Solar Ambitions Are Suddenly Outsize
After years of lagging behind China and the West in the adoption of solar power, some states in India are proposing to build solar farms at a galloping pace that leaves them at risk of falling short of electricity (a familiar problem here) or of paying higher prices for it.
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The Financial Transaction Tax: Globalization’s Payback Time for the World’s Poor
How the last United Nations General Assembly offered real hope for those that wish to put an end to global poverty.
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13 Young African Business/Economic Leaders To Watch in 2013
VENTURES AFRICA – It was American football coach, Vincent Lombardi that said, “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” Today, there are many young Africans blazing trails across the continent and globally – new breed, cosmopolitan Africans, shaping Africa’s future. Their social/business activities in one way or the other illuminates the potential that will shape the business and economic future of Africa.
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