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Harvard Business School-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance Is Accepting Applications
The 2016 Harvard Business School – Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is now accepting applications for what will be another exceptional week of learning and exchange among world leaders in financial inclusion. The program will take place March 28 – April 2, 2016 at the HBS campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Asian Firms Can Take the Lead in Curbing Poverty, WB Says
Family-owned Asian businesses like the conglomerates that dominate the Philippine economy get a bad rap from more widely held “western” corporations, which are seen as more competitive due to better management.
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NexThought Monday: A New Checklist for Developing Markets for Underserved Communities
New research highlights the significance of incorporating a more “bottom-up” and participatory approach to market development – a position that contrasts with top-down methods that have dominated academic, policy and practitioner discourse.
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IGNIA Successfully Raises US$90 Million as a First Closing of Its Fund II
IGNIA, a leading venture capital fund in Mexico, has closed the Mexican vehicle of its Fund II, raised through Mexican publicly traded certificates known as CKDs. Mexican pension funds invested in the fund, marking a first for venture capital in Mexico and demonstrating institutional investors' confidence in IGNIA's track record, as well as the accelerated economic growth found at the base of the socio-economic pyramid in Mexico.
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Identifying and Connecting Promising #Socents: Siemens Stiftung awards meant to help bottom-up solutions achieve high-level goals
Siemens Stiftung's "empowering people. Awards" are designed to identify promising technologies designed to benefit people without access to crucial basic services, add the innovations to a database available to the international development community, and connect the innovators on a common platform and offer them help where they need it.
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Welcome to the New NextBillion: As we celebrate 10 years online, we unveil a comprehensively redesigned website
Emerging economies – and the businesses that serve them – have come a long way in the past decade. And so has NextBillion. Today represents another key step in our evolution, as we unveil a comprehensively redesigned website.
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This Indonesian Microfinance Startup Wants to Put Loan Sharks Out of Business
In Indonesia, 203 million people are classified as poor, living on less than US$4.50 per day. This group of consumers is not the section of the economic pyramid that conventional banks and insurance companies tend to prioritize, despite their making up the majority of the archipelago’s population. This is a problem Aidil Zulkifli, co-founder and CEO of UangTeman, hopes to solve.
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