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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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“Africa needs Africa”: MasterCard & Bank of Tanzania push for local solutions
Zahir Khoja, VP, global channels at MasterCard, said Africa is attractive as an untapped opportunity and warned many companies think they can implement a “plug and play solution” without realising that “sometimes there is no socket” to do this. Instead they need to understand that an African-specific solution is needed.
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Apollo Hospitals to focus on rural areas
Apollo Hospitals plans to ride the next wave of growth with expansion in rural sector, Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, said. The hospital chain plans to add at least 14 Reach Hospitals in rural regions at a cost of ? 1,800 crore by 2016 and plans more in the coming years.
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Airtel joins GSMA’s mobile health programme
Bharti Airtel today said it has joined GSMA's mobile health partnership programme which aims to provide a range of services to women and children across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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India next on Abbott’s global rebranding map
In a bid to reach out and engage with consumers more, the $22-billion US healthcare major Abbott is redefining its corporate identity, with India becoming one of the first markets after the US and Brazil where the change is being rolled out.
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Unlocking the Potential of Nigeria’s Private Sector: A look behind the $24 million pledge for health innovations
Nigerian business leaders have made a $24 million commitment, through the Private Sector Healthcare Alliance of Nigeria, to focus on maternal and child mortality reductions for the Saving One Million Lives initiative.
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PRESS RELEASE: Impact Accelerator launched in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Impact Investment Exchange Asia has launched its first Impact Accelerator program in the Philippines, an intensive in-country program designed to accelerate early-stage social enterprises that have high potentials to create positive social and environmental impact at scale.
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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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