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Guest Post: Promoting Green Entrepreneurship in India’s Auto-Rickshaw Sector
Auto-rickshaw services in Indian cities are mostly unorganized, creating myriad economic and environmental problems for both drivers and customer passengers. But linking rickshaw entrepreneurs with social investors presents a huge business opportunity to bring about social and sustainable benefits - the focus of an EMBARQ India summit next month.
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Best Ideas of 2011: Revolutionizing mindsets for a new Arab World
People from the Arab World showed that the impossible is possible. Citizens fought for their rights, shaping a new Arab World associated with ?opportunity? and ?change? instead of ?disenfranchisement? and ?stagnation? by people from both inside and outside of the region - and setting the ground for unleashing entrepreneurial energy!
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The G20 Challenge Applying Proven Business Models to the BoP
Last week, the doors swung wide for full applications to the G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation. The Challenge doesn’t offer prize money to winners - rather its value is in opening the doors of opportunity for BoP-focused enterprises with proven models.
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NexThought Monday: Africa’s Entrepreneurial Hot-Spot
Nigeria is blessed with major oil reserves, and a petrochemical industry drives the economy. Still, more than 50 percent of Nigerians live below the international poverty line of $2 a day. In rural areas, it’s closer to 70 or 80 percent. Despite this environment (and indeed, in part because of it), Lagos is an entrepreneurial hotspot.
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What the 1 Percent (of Capital Markets) Could Do for Impact Investing
How can we unlock new sources of capital from retail investment to ensure impact investment opportunities aren?t just for the wealthy? A new book discusses ?widening the doorway? to create a greater pool of private capital for impact. Meanwhile investment group TriLinc is launching a $1.25 billion fund for ?mainstreet? investors.
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The 2012 ‘Doing Business’ Report: A Traveler’s Guide
Access to credit, reliable electricity, reasonable tax codes and other factors key to a business’s long-term success?for better or worse?often lies with a country?s government. The World Bank ranks these factors in its annual Doing Business Report. This year?s survey also provided intriguing insights for developing world entrepreneurs.
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Lessons Learned, Using Livelihoods to Combat Extreme Urban Poverty
Partners in Prosperity is the non-profit affiliate of Mimo Finance, a microfinance institution. The pilot project in Dehradun, India focused on livelihoods; training such as candle-making, small shops, and snack stands. PnP’s training and "starter kits" gave participants the jumpstart they needed without relying on government programs.
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How to Scale Community Impact With a Market-Based Approach
"In a social business, community impact comes first," was one of the fundamental insights at the first Community Impact Development Group meeting hosted by Ashoka and the Siemens Stiftung last year. But, what do we understand by Community Impact? Why is it so critical to systems change? What are the diverse strategies that best achieve it?
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