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  Honoring November’s ‘NextBees’ : Buzz-worthy tales of bucking culture, reaching markets

  Welcome to the second edition of the “NextBees,” our monthly awards recognizing the posts with the most – the most reads, the most comments and/or the most shares on social media – that is. The two most-read posts that also elicited the most reactions and shares on NextBillion in November, essentially, were all about bucking corporate culture.
  

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  The Top Health Care Innovations of 2012: CHMI Releases its 2012 Highlights Report

  Innovators are experimenting with clinic chains and franchises, mobile health care and other tactics to provide better care to the world’s poor, according to a new report from the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI).

• News
  Panasonic lanterns ‘to regain market’

  Osaka, Dec 10 (bdnews24.com) – Electronics giant Panasonic will launch solar lanterns for un-electrified areas in developing countries by early next year as it shifts its businesses to eco-technologies to bring back the losing markets by 2018, its 100th anniversary.

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  Tiendas de la Salud: A Microfranchise Health Store Launches in Guatemala

  Tiendas de la Salud is part of the micro-franchise business model set up by Mercy Corps and the Linked Foundation, now owned by Farmacias de la Comunidad. Microfranchise models, broadly defined, are small businesses run by entrepreneurs at the base of the socio-economic pyramid that can be easily operated and replicated. In TISA’s case, entrepreneurs own and manage local microfranchise health stores, filling a badly needed public health and market niche.

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  UN FAO calls for sustained investment in global agriculture

  Excessive corruption, poor infrastructure and scarce government resources were deterring investment in agriculture and contributing to high levels of malnourishment around the world, said an FAO report released Thursday.

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  McMedicine: Is Social Franchising the Next Big Thing in BoP Health Care?

  Around half of all people in developing countries turn to the private sector for health care – even though public facilities are generally cheaper or even free. Can health care franchises maintain the qualities that make private clinics so popular - while also keeping prices low?

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  AfDB, researchers launch $63 m initiative to lift Africans out of poverty

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) and researchers have launched the US$63.24 million AfDB-funded initiative aimed to raise agricultural productivity and also lift millions of Africans out of poverty.

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  Capturing the Gains: Improving the lives of workers and producers through global value chains

  The importance of global value chains to the lives of millions of poor people cannot be ignored. Over US$2 trillion sales in manufacturing and services are now conducted through global value chains - much more if agrofood is included. Lead firms coordinate their value chains, linking activities from production, through distribution and logistics to retail. They provide jobs and incomes for many millions of workers and small-scale producers.