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Gawad Kalinga : Building a social enterprise network in the Philippines
Gawad Kalinga, now a multi-million dollar Filipino NGO, was founded by Antonio Meloto (“Tito Tony” as he’s also known) to reduce poverty through a genuine network effect connecting businesses, communities, government and educators. Gawad Kalinga’s goal is ending poverty for 5 million families by 2024.
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Applying BoP Health Care Solutions In the Developed World: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 2
Rising health care costs are an urgent problem around the world. But can the ultra affordable health care models being developed at the BoP work in wealthier countries? In Part 2 of our Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other issues that are shaping global health.
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Moving from the What to the How of BoPBiz
The massive interest and the multi-sectorial participation in the BASE II Forum International indicate that the field of base of the pyramid business models has matured. They indicate that the debate has reached another level where the questions and issues turn around the how, not the what.
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BASF to develop ‘base of pyramid’ products at India R&D unit
At a time when foreign investors are shunning India due to uncertain economic scenario, BASF, world’s biggest chemical company, is still bullish on the country. The company is setting up its research and development (R&D) hub in the country to develop products for lower income segments as well as emerging middle class, or the ‘base of pyramid’. It sees a market potential of of 100 million euros, or Rs 850 crore, by 2020 for the products developed at the R&D hub.
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Weekly Roundup – 8/17/13: Why the Top of the Pyramid might just want to pay attention to the base
Christine Driscoll Goulay, the associate director of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, has a wake up call for luxury brands: Your customers may not be following you. Her solution: CSR 3.0, which leans heavily on the Base of the Pyramid.
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The Future of the BoP Domain: Where is our missing community?
I believe that it is time to start talking more about how we, as a sector, can collectively share – and debate – the lessons learned so far in order to better create the future path ahead of us. But in order to do that, we need to be more of a community.
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Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty
The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Titans of Industry Turning to Social Biz : Nine former Indian head honchos who are changing the world of social entrepreneurship
At SocialStory we have scoured the universe of Indian corporate bigwigs who have scaled the heights of their chosen worlds and have now decided to make the switch to the world of philanthropy. We have left out the likes of Azim Premji and Sunil Bharti Mittal because our primary criterion is that they should have switched to the philanthropic role full-time. Read on to find out more about these ex-corporate heroes who have now assumed avatars of social investors and social entrepreneurs.
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