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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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Where social problems and business solutions meet
Israeli entrepreneurs seek to lure companies into the nascent field of development technology.
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- North Africa & Near East
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New Partnership to Develop Business Models for Providing Basic Services to the BoP in Latin America
IDB’s MIF, OMJ to provide grants and technical assistance for businesses seeking to provide health care, education, energy and water for poor and low-income communities
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NIC to launch Rs 5,000 cr VC fund for innovation: Pitroda
The fund will support enterprises which drive change at the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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Unitus Seed Fund lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors
Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others
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India’s shift to inclusive innovation is ‘a model to follow’
A leading Indian scientist and policymaker is calling on developing countries to adopt an "emerging paradigm" of affordable, less complex and inclusive innovation to promote development and cut poverty.
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There is a Fortune at the BoP: So why aren’t large corporations capturing it?
The first generation of writings on the "bottom of the pyramid" were based on the premise that large corporations are better positioned to address the market. But the experience of recent years shows in practice, large corporations have not always responded enthusiastically to the challenge.
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