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Oxfam stole the show before the globalists at Davos could even step on the world stage this week at the World Economic Forum. Its new report says that the world’s 85 richest people control as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. But that’s not the whole story.
Weekly Roundup 1/25/14: Oxfam’s 85 richest study, dissension in Davos and short ladders to income equalityBlog Post
It would take $5 million to $10 million in venture capital to start an international company that would buy a million eyeglasses in mainland China at around 50 cents apiece, design robust, visually appealing mobile display stands ... (and develop) an effective global distribution and marketing strategy.
How to Build a Market for Eyeglasses: More than 600 million people have serious vision problems and they — and society — pay a steep priceNews
There are eight keys to applying zero-based design to the conceptualization and implementation of a business that will market essential products or services to people living on $2 a day or less and be profitable enough to attract the capital necessary to reach global scale. By employing these principles in an integrated, bottom-up design process, you can fashion an enterprise that will truly help millions of severely poor people move out of poverty.
Eight keys to ending povertyBlog Post
How could mobile phones be even more important in the future, if most of the world already has one? Because one day soon they’ll be put to their highest use: saving millions of lives.
Can You Hear Me Yet?: mHealth breakthroughs not increasing as fast as the possibilitiesNews
“Can business solve poverty? If you think it can, raise your hand.”When I asked that question from the podium earlier this week at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs' (ANDE) annual meeting, nearly every one of the 200 members packed into the room raised a hand.
Can Business Solve Poverty?News
Singapore based Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) has announced today that its Impact Partners platform has successfully facilitated an investment from two private investors, alongside lead investors from the Artha initiative and the Stone Family Foundation, into Spring Health Water (India) Pte. Ltd., a for-profit Social Enterprise that provides safe and affordable drinking water to rural customers in India.
Impact Investment Exchange Asia invests in Indian Social Enterprise Spring HealthBlog Post
Last week, a dozen social entrepreneurs convened on the Santa Clara University campus in the heart of Silicon Valley for the “in-residence” component of the GSBI Accelerator, a 10-month capacity development program that aims to prepare more advanced social enterprises for scaling their impact.
Why Silicon Valley Needs a Link to the Developing World: Capacity development experiments and social enterprise scaling factorsNews
Some solar startups are addressing the problem with creative financing models.
Selling Solar Panels on the Installment Plan in Africa