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Changing Our Priorities: When we don’t actually want what we ‘need’
More organizations are spending less time on the tired “it’s good for you, why don’t you understand?” approach to poverty alleviation. The age-old question – how might we deliver a product or service that people “need” and want? – is being answered in new and interesting ways.
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AKF USA Makes its First Mission-Related Investment in Afghanistan
Mohd Nabi Allah Yar runs a yarn-producing business in Afghanistan. He employs 80 local women and supports many Afghan shepherds by purchasing their wool. The impact of his business on the shepherds, his employees, and his customers would not have been possible without his first loan, which he received from the First MicroFinance Bank of Afghanistan (FMFB-A) through its Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) portfolio.
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Creating Employment Opportunities At the BoP: An Interview with Ajaya Mohapatra
A Q&A with Ajaya Mohapatra, Managing Director of Justrojgar India Private Limited – a for-profit venture bridging the demand-supply gap in informal sector jobs by sourcing, training and placing people living at the base of the pyramid.
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Announcing: Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean, BASE II: June 6-7, 2013 in Medellin, Colombia
For the most up to date and in depth information on how to develop and deploy successful BoP business models, join Opportunities for the Majority Initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank in Medellin, Colombia on June 6-7, 2013 for the second Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean, BASE II.
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Special Series (Part 6): BPO for the BoP : Thoughts on moving impact sourcing forward
Impact Sourcing (IS) has the potential to alleviate poverty for millions of people in a sustainable manner through job creation in the formal economy. Each piece was intended to shed light on a different facet of Impact Sourcing. The insights were derived from a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and performed by the William Davidson Institute (WDI).
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Measuring Socio-Economic Impact : Tackling some tough questions
When interacting with members and partners of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), several questions about how to tackle the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact often come up.
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Weekly Roundup 1/19/13: A March conference focuses on Marketing to the BoP (A video Q&A with Hystra’s Kayser)
Olivier Kayser is the founder and managing director of Hystra, a for-profit firm that works with business and social sector innovators to design and implement hybrid strategies for businesses and NGOs working at the BoP. Hystra is releasing a new research paper “Marketing for the BoP," which will be the centerpiece of a March conference.
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Putting Numbers on Multinationals’ Impact is Even Harder Than it Looks
Multinational companies like to describe their presence as a boon to developing countries. In a remarkable joint study, Oxfam International and Unilever Indonesia found such claims are valid—sometimes. The British antipoverty NGO and the Anglo-Dutch consumer products company were looking for new ways to help the world’s poor—and new ways to talk about the things they were already doing. Was Unilever’s Indonesia operation improving the lives of Indonesia’s poor and wider economy? If so, how much?
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