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Special Series (Part 1): BPO for the BoP – defining Impact Sourcing and its potential to boost employment opportunity
Impact Sourcing, also known as socially responsible outsourcing, is an exciting and emerging space within the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. Through work performed by the William Davidson Institute and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, this series explores the challenges and potential for impact sourcing to alleviate poverty for millions of people in a sustainable manner through job creation and employment.
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- Education, Technology
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The Latest Way to Solve Poverty in the Middle East
In the last two years, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has increasingly focused on supporting social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa region as a way of tackling the region’s socio-economic challenges that cause poverty.
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- North Africa & Near East
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- employment
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Egypt: Impact Investing Is Key to Inclusive Development in Egypt
Demographic pressures and years of under investment in meeting social needs suggest that Egypt will not be able to provide jobs, housing and basic services without adopting a wide strategy for inclusive development. Impact investing should be encouraged as one of the strategy's pillars.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Capturing the Gains: Improving the lives of workers and producers through global value chains
The importance of global value chains to the lives of millions of poor people cannot be ignored. Over US$2 trillion sales in manufacturing and services are now conducted through global value chains - much more if agrofood is included. Lead firms coordinate their value chains, linking activities from production, through distribution and logistics to retail. They provide jobs and incomes for many millions of workers and small-scale producers.
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- Uncategorized
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- employment, supply chains
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Justrojgar Joins With Upaya Social Ventures to Create Service Sector Jobs for the Very Poorest
Equity Investment Will Create New Corporate, Domestic Employment Opportunities For Those Living At The Base Of The Pyramid
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- South Asia
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Bangladesh could be ‘next China’
Bangladesh must act soon to take advantage of its low-cost edge to become the "next China" before Dhaka's competitors take the markets the world's second largest economy is leaving, according to the World Bank.
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- South Asia
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- employment, manufacturing
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Observing the Arab Spring, African Bankers Devise Economic Strategies
The African Development Bank (AfDB) was established in 1964 to guide the continent onto a path of sustainable pan-African economic growth and reduce poverty. Heading its efforts is Mthuli Ncube, chief economist and vice president at the multilateral bank, which is temporarily headquartered in Tunisia.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Inclusive Compliance: The New Playing Field for Inclusive Business Innovations
Not all supply chains are the same, and not all of them are limited to structured factories or facilities. Difficulties arise when monitoring labor standards in informal sectors, such as evaluating environmental or social standards. This was the driving force behind inclusive compliance.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment