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Will Health Benefit From India’s New CSR Rules?: Impact of the new law, which kicks in April 1, still being debated
“Social business projects” are encouraged under India’s new corporate social responsibility laws, and that bodes well for social entrepreneurs and anyone wanting to innovate in trying to reach people at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
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- Health Care
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SAP Expands Social Sabbatical to China in 2013, Increases Service Assignments Abroad
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it is now more than doubling the number of employees it sends to help entrepreneurs and small to midsize companies solve business challenges in emerging markets. This social sabbatical initiative by SAP is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy to foster education and entrepreneurship among disadvantaged communities. In this next phase of the program, SAP is investing €1.8 million to strengthen the leadership skills of 72 qualified employees and create sustainable impact in the selected countries.
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Fat profits: how the food industry cashed in on obesity
Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry
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- Health Care
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Corporations and the fight against hunger: why CSR won’t do
There is an opportunity for the private sector to lead in tackling chronic malnutrition, but seeing it as corporate social responsibility or charity is damaging.
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- Health Care
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TechnoServe and Nespresso partner to build a more sustainable coffee industry in East Africa
TechnoServe and Nespresso are launching a partnership in East Africa to improve the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers while creating a more sustainable source of supply for Nespresso.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Corporate Aid or Colonialism?: The G8’s New Alliance sparks debate over big businesses’ role in fighting poverty
The New Alliance, started by the G8 last year, has the ambitious goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty. It has mobilized billions of dollars in private sector investment in African agriculture. But that investment comes with a few strings attached.
Is it a worthy effort to strengthen weak value chains, or a profit grab that marginalizes smallholder farmers?- Categories
- Agriculture
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Toms sets out to sell a lifestyle, not just shoes
Founder Blake Mycoskie has set out to save the world with his "one-for-one" tagline. His critics say that giving alone doesn't solve a thing.
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- Impact Assessment
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Help end poverty, World Bank tells private sector
The World Bank is undertaking an ambitious goal to end extreme global poverty within a generation by encouraging the involvement of the private sector.
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- Technology