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What SMEs Do (and Don’t Do) for Jobs
Across the political spectrum, any leader worth their salt will express support for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - remember the "job-creator" debate during last year's U.S. presidential elections? Globally, the G20 has prominently made SME support a priority of their development agenda, citing that SMEs account for 45 percent of employment and 33 percent of GDP in developing countries.
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‘The next 10 years will make or break India’
Vijay Govindarajan, Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the US speaks to N. Madhavan about how Indian companies can promote innovation.
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NexThought Monday: What business can teach philanthropists
My company, Geneva Global, was founded by an international investment group looking for professional philanthropic advice that met investment banking standards. Given our DNA, I believe there are three business traits that would make philanthropists more effective.
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Ghana Celebrates Innovation Week 2013, June 25-29
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) will host Ghana's annual Innovation Week from Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 June, 2013. The Innovation Week is West Africa's premier Innovation event, showcasing the work of Ghana's talented and agile technology application developers.
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World’s Poorest Nations Can Lead Development Agenda
The least developed countries (LDCs) can play a critical role in ensuring that the new global sustainability goals – which the international community aims to have in place by 2015 — are both fair and effective, say experts.
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NexThought Monday – Want to Help Africa’s SMEs? Improve Their Internet Access: A new report from Dalberg highlights the Web’s huge social and economic potential
As part of Dalberg’s Impact of the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Study, a recent survey by Dalberg Research shows just how important the Internet is to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. African policymakers–already concerned with SMEs as an engine for growth and job creation–may do well to prioritize Internet access and use among SMEs.
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Understanding What Makes Impact Accelerators … Accelerate : New ANDE/Village Capital report
Over the past year, Village Capital and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) have been working together to learn what’s working. We have surveyed more than 50 self-identified “impact accelerators” — ventures looking to provide education, training, capital, and assistance to early-stage impact enterprises, and this week, we’re releasing what we’re learning.
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Women Deliver Conference 2013: Why it pays to invest in women
In the biggest conference this decade focusing on girls’ and women’s health and rights, Women Deliver brought together more than 4,500 leaders and advocates -representing over 2,200 organizations and 149 countries – in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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