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Last night I attended a reception to launch Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion, a new report issued by Citi Foundation drawing on the conclusions of last year’s Global Symposium on Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion organized, among others, by New America...
Beyond Microcredit: Savings, Assets and Financial InclusionNews
When discussing the social sector, Bill Drayton, founder and chief executive of Ashoka, a non-profit organisation that promotes social entrepreneurs, remembers the sector 25 years ago. Salaries were pathetic, smart people would avoid it, it was disorganised, he says. That’s all gone. We’ve been catching up and once you go from non-competitive to competitive, organisations have to join in the party or they’ll be eaten alive. As many no...
MBAs lift non-profit sectorNews
In the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it is critical to examine all tools at our disposal to alleviate poverty. The greatest untapped resource is the enormous potential, in the form of investment and innovation, of the private sector. And the success of any private enterprise with the poor depends on a dialogue and often collaboration with governments. United Nations Development Programme’s new report Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business wi...
Business with the poorNews
This week Trade Ministers assemble in Geneva to try and make progress at the World Trade Organisation on the Doha Development trade round. The global economy needs the boost that further trade liberalisation has always delivered. However, it’s true of generals, leaders, and bureaucrats, that we fight the next war, or address the next problem based on the evidence of our last battle when things have moved on. My experience of the 1970’s prepared me for the needs o...
Rwanda: The Starving Bottom BillionNews
Export Service Centre Connects Small-Scale Producers in Indonesia with Import Buyers in Europe to Create Sustainable Jobs and Advance Skills Development Hong Kong, July 22, 2008 -- People in Europe who buy the eco-friendly shopping bags made of recycled materials are doing more than just helping the environment -- they are also giving meaningful employment and self-sufficiency to 37 physically disabled people in Indonesia. This is made possible through the work of the non-profit Ex...
Exports of Eco-friendly Shopping Bags Give Livelihood Opportunities to Disabled in IndonesiaNews
The future of Nigeria belongs to today’s youths who are actively running their own small businesses. The minister of youth development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkunmi, made this statement in Abuja at the closing ceremony of the corpers’ entrepreneurship development programme [CEDP] organised by Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) in collaboration with the directorate of National Youth Service Corps [NYSC]. The minister who was repres...
Nigeria: “The Future Belongs to Youths in Enterprise” – OlasunkamiNews
China recently overtook the United States as the world’s biggest carbon polluter, but in a nation known for its dirty technology , a surprising business trend is emerging: green entrepreneurs. As China booms, the country has relie...
Is the future green for China?News
A new global middle class is rising up from poverty in emerging economies around the world, providing competition for labor and resources, but also enormous promise for multinationals that tailor products and services to the burgeoning ranks of first-time consumers, according to Wharton faculty and analysts. Coca-Cola’s newly appointed chief executive Muhtar Kent sees this market as critical to his company’s future and describes the scale of the opportunity as equivalent to...
The New Global Middle Class: Potentially Profitable — but Also Unpredictable
