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The Other Capital in Impact Investing: Why Human Capital May Matter More than Money, and What Investors Can Do About It
Money is not enough for impact businesses to succeed, according to Paul Breloff of Shortlist; they need an answer to their human capital challenges to unlock their world-changing potential. Here he discusses why human capital matters, why it's being under-supported by impact investors and what it will take for more investors to see it for what it is – an area of great opportunity.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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How Ikea helped to change attitudes on helping refugees
Refugee populations have long been reliant on charitable aid agencies, but could business investment make a more meaningful difference?
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- Entrepreneurship
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IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in massive social sustainability drive
IKEA is to open production centres in refugee camps in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes.
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- Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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- employment, manufacturing, refugees
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Kenya Targets 1 Million Digital Jobs for Youths in a Year
Kenya has started a digital skills training program to enable 1 million young people to secure freelance online work in the next year, in a bid to tackle the country's acute youth unemployment problem.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment, jobs, technology
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IBUILD Paves Way for Housing Development in Kenya
Kenya’s problems with real estate are well known: with a supply shortage of over two million houses and over 90% of the construction workforce not formally registered with the government, development is often erratic and informal. In the spring of 2015 a tech-enabled solution was set up by affordable housing and urban renewal organization Builders of Hope (BOH), with an aim of allowing people to build for themselves and to help the workforce find job opportunities.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Growth Support Services: Taking Women-Run SMEs to the Next Level
The VV GROW Fellowship invests in women business owners in emerging economies, supporting them through three training stages: 1) virtual training, 2) in-person training, and 3) growth services and support. Here, four business owners talk about how, in the final stage of the fellowship, they implemented and revised their action plans and evaluated progress toward their growth goals.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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Taking a Match to Convention: A Podcast Chat with Matchboxology’s Cal Bruns
Cal Bruns left a successful career with advertising powerhouse Leo Burnett to found Matchboxology, a human-centered design consultancy with offices in Capetown and Johannesburg South Africa. He chats with NextBillion Contributing Editor Scott Anderson in the NextBillion podcast.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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NexThought Monday: The Role of STEM Professionals in Global Sustainable Development
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community is changing. Many passionate, hardworking students are not as excited about taking up well-paying, but arguably monotonous, jobs in large corporations. Their big question is: what do we do next? To answer this question, Khanjan Mehta of Penn State spent over three years interacting with hundreds of innovators to find new pathways toward careers in social innovation and global sustainable development.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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