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If there was ever a good summer to be in Spain, 2008 was it. Not only because of the great celebrations that surely followed Torres’ match-winning goal last Sunday, but also because of the remarkable Expo Zaragoza 08. Titled “Water and Sustainable Development", the Expo will...
Roundup: Expo Zaragoza ’08 and Other Reasons to Join the Water ConversationNews
The idea that you can do good for society and the environment-and still make a healthy profit-is starting to catch on Even with a single bottom line-the raw pursuit of profit-first-time venture funds struggle to post positive returns. Add in a mandate to combine social good with financial gain, and odds of success would seem daunting enough to keep even the most risk-tolerant emerging manager from attempting a double bottom line approach. Not so. This year, ...
Wholesome InvestingBlog Post
This is exactly the same question that was asked by the World Bank last year and I have recently had the chance to read their subsequent report ?Unleashing India?s Innovation?. All in all it was an interesting reading with a complete analysis of the main innovation levers in the...
How to Stimulate Innovation in India?News
The shortest distance between a U.S. shopper and the product he or she craves: credit, preferably of the card variety. For many Latin American consumers hoping to get their hands on a personal computer, the barrier is the same - or more precisely, it’s the lack of credit. Really, nobody but a couple companies will finance consumers, said Peter Weigandt, head of Dell Inc.’s business in Latin America. Dell and other computer makers are develo...
Dell’s Quest for Growth: to Offset Domestic Slowdown Company Chases Latin AmericaBlog Post
"So, what do you think about the IEG report?” I was g-chatting with my friend Smita the other night when she brought up the World Bank. “What IEG report? What’s the IEG?” I replied, showing my ignorance of the latest Bank goings on (and of the acronym ? it stands for...
Doing Business Series Gets Slammed by World Bank WatchdogNews
It’s already launched in Kenya, Afghanistan and Tanzania. And now a mobile money-transfer service from Vodafone is to reach 40 million customers in India. Meanwhile, Microsoft Innovation Centres in Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda and Morocco are set to provide aspiring business people with the technology to launch new products. And in India, personalised commercial information is being texted to the mobile phones of thousands of farmers in their own language. These three groundbreakin...
Down to businessBlog Post
A key issue that the BoP development world currently faces is generating a tangible connection between markets, enterprise and the poor. After all, if we are going to alleviate poverty through enterprise, we require effective strategies that enable the BoP to participate in profitable business...
“Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor” – An Analysis of the ReportNews
Our mission is to build a health records system in support of direct patient care, on the ground for the very poorest of the poor, Dr Paul Biondich, a paediatrician at the Regenstrief Institute in the US and one of the co-founders of OpenMRS told the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet. OpenMRS was formed in 2004 and is a free application that has already been rolled out in many African countries, including, Kenya, South Africa and Rwanda. The system has been des...
Free medical tool tackles disease
