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Using Innovative, Low-cost Solutions to Provide Safe Drinking Water in India
P.Venkatesh, a resident of Boduppal village in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, is a carpenter of modest means. The ever-increasing price of essentials has forced him to cut corners to save each paisa as he struggles to look after his family of four. But despite all odds and after much deliberation, three months ago he decided to make provision for yet another non-negotiable in his monthly budget -- drinking water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Danone plans national launch for its yoghurts next year
MUMBAI: French dairy major Danone today said its new business unit here which is dedicated for developing products for the masses, will be rolled out to other cities by next year.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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FEATURED EVENT: Adapting Scalable Clean Technologies for Bottom of the Pyramid Markets: It’s one of many key discussions at Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference
Despite the massive increases in capacity and subsequent subsidy cuts driving solar module prices down they’re still not cheap enough for developing countries. But with innovative business solutions these new technologies can become economically viable in BoP markets.
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- Energy, Technology
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Dow Corning Offers Workers Cold Showers With Bugs to Build Sales
When Brad Fogg did volunteer work in India, the adventure came with unwelcome insects and other discomforts, as well as a chance to benefit the country and find opportunities for his employer, Dow Corning Corp.
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- South Asia
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Forget Poverty – Let’s Talk About Business: ‘Generalist’ Paul Polak offers specifics for social entrepreneurs
When you talk to Paul Polak it takes about 15 seconds for him to dive into the pragmatic details of his six or so latest business ventures. It’s easy at first to be overwhelmed with detail, but if you stay with it, you realize that he has taken practicality and common sense to a blazing edge. In a very different context, it’s what I imagine it must have been like to talk to Sam Walton in the early days of Wal-Mart.
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- Education
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The 2012 Social Entrepreneur Awardees
When Klaus Schwab and I created the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship back in 2000, no one knew what social entrepreneurs were. They were uncommon and unsung heroes in their respective countries and communities, working in relative obscurity to test out new approaches to tackle profound market failures. When they came to Davos, few participants attended the session ‘Meet the Social Entrepreneurs’. Their voices – and the voices of the bottom billion of humanity, the poor people they serve – were often not heard.
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Overcoming the Challenges in Mobile: Living Goods hopes to follow in the footsteps of Amway, Avon, and Tupperware
With a core business in health care sales, Living Goods is no stranger to behavior change. Despite the challenges to rolling out a new mobile system to a sales force of 250 women, most over 40 years old, 60 percent of who had never used SMS before, the organization is seeing some early successes.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Oando seals pact with LAPO on access to cooking gas
Following its plan to switch millions of Nigerians from biomass to a clean and sustainable cooking gas, Oando Marketing Plc has entered into an agreement with Lift Above Poverty Organisation Microfinance Bank (LAPO) to provide soft loans for low-income households in Nigeria to purchase Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
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- Energy