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  A Closer Look at the “Business in a Bag” Model

  This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed by Ayllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. It analyzes the "business in a bag" model of microfranchise, used by several social enterprises to expand their operations.

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  International Development’s Dirty Little Secret

  There is a curious phenomenon in international development-one that has been a taboo subject for many years. It eludes the calculations of economists, confounds private sector growth, and interferes with the proper functioning of public services. And it helps explain the following facts:

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  Dr. Sebisaho: One Man and an Island

  Having grown up vacillating between the Congo and Rwanda (and having completed his medical training in the latter), Dr. Sebisaho has obtained a pulse on the medical needs of the under-served Island of Idjwi as well as an acute understanding of the cultural and economic subtleties critical in treating its ails.

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  Hand-held Doctors and Mobile Premium Payments: How Technology Can Improve Insurance for the Poor

  Microinsurance represents a promising new way to protect the poor, but reaching low-income markets sustainably requires creative new strategies. The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility looks at how microinsurance providers are using technology to overcome the industry’s challenges.

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  Introducing iuMAP, a Resource to Track Social Enterprise Globally

  We’re excited to introduce iuMAP, the largest publicly available directory of market-based solutions to poverty challenges. Let us share a bit about the rationale behind launching iuMAP and what can be expected in the weeks and months to come.

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  Stories from Sarvajal’s Turf

  This summer I have been working in Sarvajal’s franchise business development (FBD) team. My journeys took me to remotest corners of Gujarat, where I traveled extensively in the outback and lived with the franchisee as a member of his family. Sarvajal believes what they are doing is creating soft IP in rural marketing through their FBD teams.

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  The AIDS Funding Dilemma

  In the "AIDS exceptionalism" debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support. Dr. Jerome Kabakyenga has just walked a pair of visitors through a pair of vividly different Ugandan hospital laboratories - one ultramodern, the other an outdated relic. ...

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  Can Ice Cream Help Pull Rwanda Out of Poverty?

  Motorcycle taxis zip along the narrow tarmac road from Butare, Rwanda’s second largest city, to the National University on the outskirts of town. Along the verge, clusters of students mosey towards campus while men on bicycles laden with sacks of beans cruise past a backdrop of terraced hills. About halfway between town and the university, the students pause at a modest yet modern white-stucco storefront where a hand-painted banner announces the arrival...