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Beyond Competition: An interview with Grameen Foundation’s Steve Wright
From a traditional business perspective, social enterprise seems to be built upon a contradiction. How can you run a company whose ultimate goal is to foster and empower competitors rather than defeat them? That’s one of the topics discussed by Steve Wright, vice president of Grameen Foundation’s Poverty Tools & Insights division, in this BoP Summit 2013 interview.
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Framing the BoP : Dalberg’s Gupta on avoiding negative definitions for BoP business
Gaurav Gupta, Dalberg’s regional director for Asia, says the broader base of the pyramid business space should avoid defining itself from a negative perspective, i.e. failures. Instead we should emphasize strides in reducing the BoP sector as a whole.
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Finding the Right Temperature for Public/Private Partnerships: An interview with the head of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, has about 100 million reasons for looking toward innovative ways to partner and collaborate with social enterprises, development agencies and NGOs. I caught up with her at the BoP Summit last month to talk about new modes of thinking around public-private partnerships.
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BoP Summit: Creating the Roadmap: An ongoing discussion
The ultimate goal of last week’s BoP Summit 2013 was to set a new course for improving the next generation of enterprises serving the poor. It’s an ambitious goal, and the summit leadership group decided the best way to accomplish it was to divide the tasks into nine working groups filled by the 200 attendees. Now it’s your turn to shape it.
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Weekly Roundup – 10/26/13: Guiding the “invisible hand” of the Base of the Pyramid market
Sometimes the invisible hand of the market needs, well, a helping hand. Consider the cases of Honey Care Africa, General Electric, and Coca Cola as they attempt establish new markets at the BoP. Each mini-case was reflected by company representatives during this week’s BoP Summit.
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We Have Seen the Future, and It’s Universal: Single-payer systems being penciled onto BoP health care’s ‘blank slate’
There’s a worldwide movement toward universal health coverage because, as one expert says, “systems that rely on direct, out-of-pocket expenditures lead to inequities. … They just don’t work very well.” Next up is identifying the sources of financing and care.
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Day 3 at the BoP Summit: The investment community’s 2 cents, the roadmap work begins
Wednesday was the final day of WDI’s “BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade,” but it also was the first step towards advancing business models and funding mechanisms for the base of the pyramid.
These first steps came at the end of the three-day conference as nine working groups began piecing together a roadmap to chart the future course of the base of the pyramid (BoP) domain.- Categories
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Day 2 at the BoP Summit: Urgent, but practical, action
On Day Two, attendees of the BoP Summit took a more functional role – brainstorming solutions to the challenges facing BoP ventures today and starting to map the future path of this vital field that aims to lift people out of poverty.
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