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NexThought Monday – Social Enterprise Startup Lessons from Burkina Faso: Doing business at the bottom of the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business Index’
Social enterprises are tackling the most challenging problems facing the BoP, but, in truth, we have not fully developed specific strategies or approaches for BoP-oriented start-ups in those crucial early months, writes Andrew Lala, co-founder of startup Clair de Lune. He offers several lessons from his social enterprise’s first three months on the ground in the heart of West Africa.
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US to partner India in ‘Swachch Bharat’ campaign
Taking the US-India joint statement forward, USAID chief Rajiv Shah announced three partnership projects with India on areas close to PM Narendra Modi's heart — "strengthen water and sanitation, expand access to clean energy and increase access to banking services for poor Indians".
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Dr. H. Sudarshan of Karuna Trust Wins India Social Entrepreneur of the Year, 2014
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation announced Dr. H. Sudarshan, founder of Karuna Trust, as the winner of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year, 2014 Award. The awards were conferred in New Delhi, at a well-attended gala, by Mr. Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence, Government of India. The other finalists included Matthew Spacie of Magic Bus and Yogendra Bhushan of Bodh Shiksha Samiti.
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Hivos-Triodos Fund (HTF) Loans $3.1m to India’s IntelleGrow for Loans to Small, Medium-Sized Enterprises
The Hivos-Triodos Fund (HTF), a Netherlands-based microfinance investment vehicle, recently loaned EUR 2.5 million (USD 3.1 million) to IntelleGrow, an Indian nonbank financial company that specializes in making loans to small and medium-sized “social enterprises” in the agriculture, clean energy, education, financial, healthcare, sanitation and water sectors.
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Launching a Roadmap for the Base of the Pyramid Domain
The BoP Roadmap asks us to not only act for today, but to build for tomorrow, in order to truly achieve the promise of building a community of sustainable, scalable BoP enterprises focused on the alleviation of poverty. It is intended to create a stronger and more robust community that shares and learns together. As the old African proverb goes - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Understanding the shifting dynamics of BoP clients’ demand for financial services
As the need to better serve BoP markets has become a business imperative, both the context and our knowledge about low-income consumers’ use of financial services have changed. For that reason, Monique Cohen argues, we need an approach to customer service and product development that recognizes customers’ different - and evolving - financial needs.
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Top tweets from the BoP Roadmap Launch
Top tweets from the launch of the BoP Roadmap event.
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An IPO at the Base of the Pyramid?
Some say D.light could be one of the first base-of-the-pyramid IPOs to offer shares on a major stock market.
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