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From Seed to Harvest, BASF’s BoP Initiative is Rooted in Education, Profits: A video Q&A from BCTA’s Forum 2014
“The single biggest need gap we found was in information,” said Raman Ramachandran, chairman of BASF Companies in India, during last month’s Business Call to Action Forum 2014. Bridging that gap rested with providing Indian farmers tips on how and when to fertilize and safely utilize pesticides. Ramachandran sat down with NB to provide more details on the project that is boosting farmer knowledge and income.
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India might get sick before it gets rich: Krishna Kumar
Interview with Vice-chairman and MD, Philips India
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Facebook And Alibaba Will Turn The World’s Poor Into Entrepreneurs. Xiaomi Will Sell Them Smartphones
Facebook and Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) Limited are on a new mission: solve world poverty by helping more than 4 billion people from low-income countries get access to the Internet — and engage in e-tailing entrepreneurship.
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Indian start-up to enable bank transactions via kirana stores
Novopay uses Aadhaar biometric scanner for dealings
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- South Asia
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Twitter Top Ten – 11-2-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Our "favorite tweets of the week" feature continues. Check it out. And help us out by keeping a close eye on your feed this coming week and tweeting your favorites our way.
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Four ways to build an ecosystem to support business in low-income markets: How the Philippines is crafting a model worth replicating
The Philippines has proven itself an excellent example of a nation’s capacity to support ecosystem development, a model that could well be replicated in many countries. As UNDP looks to replicate the success of its country-level collaboration through the Business Call to Action Initiative in the Philippines, it is establishing a collaboration with the William Davidson Institute as part of the BoP Roadmap Initiative.
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PRESS RELEASE: IFC Launches First Bonds Supporting Inclusive Businesses in Emerging Markets
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has launched the first bond program to support businesses that profitably provide goods, services, and job opportunities to people at the base of the economic pyramid. IFC calls these inclusive business models.
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Does Size Matter?: Study finds emerging companies are doing just as well as large, established counterparts when it comes to reaching BoP beneficiaries
The idea of smaller emerging companies matching initiatives from larger companies might seem counter-intuitive at first glance. But a study of dozens of inclusive businesses challenges the assumption that large companies are by definition the best route to scale at the BoP.
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