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Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
Guest Post: Maya Nut Trees Make A Comeback in Central AmericaNews
A FEW years ago, a self-described militant liberal named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease. So Dr. Curtis, an anthropologist then living in the African nation of Burkina Faso, contacted some of the largest multinational corporations and asked them, in effect, to teach her how to manipulate consumer habits worldwide. Dr. Curtis, now the director of the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medi...
Warning: Habits May Be Good for YouBlog Post
This is part 3 of our series reviewing Michael Edwards’ Just Another Emperor and the concept of ’philanthrocapitalism’. Follow the links to read part 1 and part 2.Recently, there has been some debate surrounding business involvement in philanthropy and its usefulness after the...
A Dialogue on Philanthrocapitalism: Are BoP Businesses Useful Tools Against Poverty?Blog Post
This will be a very special week for us at WRI as the New Ventures Global team will be in together in Washington. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we would like to invite you to a panel discussion on the landscape for sustainable enterprise growth in emerging economies. Featuring our five...
Join Us for a Panel and Reception to Meet Our New Ventures Country DirectorsBlog Post
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 America
