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Health sector needs a paradigm shift to escape morass
Kenyans mourn for the people who have died in senseless road accidents even as the country celebrates its Golden Jubilee. It is regrettable that a country that was born out of bloodshed in the fight for independence should witness more deaths in hospitals due to the ongoing health workers’ strike.
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Beyond the Metros: Nurturing regional social enterprise ecosystems in India
The social enterprise ecosystem, including impact investors, are centered in India’s major metros, a world away from some of the most pressing needs and challenging contexts for entrepreneurship in India. Villgro is hoping to break new ground by organizing a series of 15 single-day Unconvention|L (Unconvention|Local) events across India. The goal is create awareness of, and enthusiasm for, social enterprise in smaller cities across the vast country.
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- Education
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Unlocking Scale: How seven inclusive businesses are creating their own keys
‘What does it take’ and ‘how long does it take’ for an inclusive business to reach scale? Persistence, adaptation, and many years are the obvious answers, but there is a lot more besides. Some answers to these questions emerge today with the launch of a series of case studies, exploring the journey to scale of seven frontier inclusive businesses supported by the Business Innovation Facility (BIF).
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Weekly Roundup – 11/22/13: Nudging the middle men and women of social enterprise
A new working paper doesn’t simply look at what small and growing businesses (those categorized seeking growth capital of between $20,000-$2 million) need to be doing, but what the “intermediaries” need to be doing to lift budding businesses.
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A Really Big Tent: Danone trying to maximize its potential through inclusiveness
Confronting the global economic crisis in recent years, Danone came up with an ambitious new business model that includes all the stakeholders in its ecosystem: employees, customers, farmers, suppliers, subcontractors, transporters, distributors, the places where it operates.
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- Agriculture
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Beauty as Business: Research on women entrepreneurs in India
Women’s World Banking conducted market research in North and South India to support the expansion of an individual lending program. Their goal was to understand the financial needs of micro-entrepreneurs and identify how individual loans could help them reach their business goals. In this post, they discuss the findings from one particularly promising business sector: beauty parlors.
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NexThought Monday: Three steps to finding and hiring great social enterprise talent
There is a growing interest in social enterprise careers the world over, yet the sector faces challenges in attracting the right talent. Given that it is a relatively young space, it needs to look outwards to fulfill its growing talent requirements. Based on my experiences in HR in this space during the last few years, here are three ways recruiters can do that.
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Health tourism being made competitive in India
The Centre is taking all steps to make the Indian health tourism industry globally competitive
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- South Asia