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(via IADB news) Government intervention in microfinance could bring funds and services to millions of poor people and improve the institutional framework of the industry?at the same time, it could deliver a knockout punch to private MFIs. By Peter Bate It would appear that the rosy wave that swept several Latin American countries in the 2006 elections is about to hit microfinance in the regi...
Government intervention in microfinance: Threat or Opportunity?News
Several private equity (PE) groups are creating funds exclusively for investing in clean technology in India, adding momentum to a sector where no funds currently exist. These groups include the Nevada-based Arvco Capital Research Llc. , Washington, DC-based ...
PE groups ready clean tech fundsBlog Post
From The Times of India:When Bradley Montgomery relocated to Bangalore from California, his primary concern as a single parent was to hire a domestic hand not just to cook and clean, but also to tend to his son Aaron (11). His mother chanced upon babajob.com and within days, Montgomery hired...
Babajob: Monster.com Meets Facebook Meets BoPNews
That India?s primary healthcare is in dire straits is well known. While the affluent sections are being overwhelmed with the choice of superspeciality service, there is a widely held belief that there is no money to be made in providing healthcare to the bottom of the pyramid. Some entrepreneurs are challenging this as a myth and trying to improve the health of healthcare in India. Ziqitza Health Care Services, the company behind the 1298...
Health and care for allNews
Some of the world’s leading information technology corporations are in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for what organizers are calling a historic summit focusing on Africa’s growing IT sector. Representatives of tech giants are calling for business solutions to alleviate poverty. Noel King has this report from Kigali. Industry leaders say chronic poverty in Africa will be alleviated by investment in information technology, rather...
Technology Giants Push to Alleviate African PovertyBlog Post
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.? -- Thomas Edison If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Global Social Enterprise Program at Colorado State University’s School of Business.? When I applied to the Johnson...
Colorado State’s Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise ProgramNews
By Jonathan Stempel EBay, the world’s largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched on Wednesday a Web site allowing ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world’s poorest countries. MicroPlace , located at http://www.microplace.com, will allow people to invest as little as $100 (48.83 pounds) to support development in impoverished areas. So-called microfinance is...
New eBay site lets people finance the world’s poorNews
The growing acceptance that the private sector has a key role to play in international development raises some major challenges for the traditional actors in this sector, argues Director of the Shell Foundation Kurt Hoffman. International development is experiencing an exciting and relatively new trend ? a growing acceptance that the private sector has a key role to play in poverty alleviation. Bill Clinton is e...
Private Sector and International Development – Part II
