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Village Level Entrepreneurs is a growing profession across rural India. Most are business owners who hawk a wide variety of products and services. The scope of VLE networks extend well beyond the realm of basic household products. Harnessing VLE network to increase clean energy access across rural belts is a key to making energy access possible.
NexThought Monday – The Last 50 Miles : How Village Level Entrepreneurs are building clean energy networksBlog Post
By 2100, Nigeria is projected to have a population of almost 1 billion. Other sub-Saharan African countries will also experience spectacular growth, and the population of developing countries will far surpass that of the rest of the world. We explore these possible changes and their exciting (or disturbing) implications in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-weekly Checkup.
The BoP Century?: The exciting (or scary) implications of demographics for global health and social enterprise (Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/20/13)News
On February 21, during the afternoon rush hour in a busy shopping center in downtown Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, two makeshift bombs packed with bolts and nails were detonated in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the city’s history. Over 100 people were injured by the blasts, and many were transported for treatment to Osmania General Hospital, the largest public hospital in the city.
Hyderabad Debates Health Insurance Model As Public Hospitals DecayNews
According to various sources, the Central Government and the Medical Council of India have reached a consensus about introducing a compulsory one-year rural stint for any MBBS student who wishes to sit for post-graduation entrance exams.
‘The Govt’s decision of sending inexperienced MBBS doctors to rural India is flawed’News
As the world awaited the next pope in March, Peter Bale, the vice president and general manager for digital at CNN International in London, wanted to know how Africans would react if the pope were from their continent.Instead of commissioning telephone pollsters or gleaning insights from social media, Mr. Bale used a mobile platform called Jana, which rewards users with free airtime if they take a survey.
Eye on Emerging Markets, Firm Invests in Start-UpNews
The election of China's Li Yong to UNIDO's top slot reveals the country's growing commitment to development.
China believes in UNIDO, why don’t the rest of us?News
The latest U.S. jobs numbers showed a U.S. unemployment rate still at 7.6 percent. The official global unemployment rate, compiled by the International Labor Organization (ILO), is around 6 percent—which suggests American workers are worse off than their counterparts worldwide. But that statistic is deeply misleading. Unemployment is, by and large, a luxury of rich countries. Billions of people across the world are stuck working long hours in subsistence farming, hawking, or other informal occupations, desperate for a job that provides a weekly wage packet.
To Help the World’s Poor, Give Them Real JobsNews
One man, Kai-Fu Lee, did more than anyone else to turn the Chinese capital into a technology powerhouse.
Beijing’s Great Leap Forward
