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Reaping the Demographic Dividend: The Challenges in Creating Jobs for Young India
Six million people are joining the Indian workforce every year, while only 1 million jobs were created last year. In advance of the Sankalp Forum later this month, organizers are hosting a live Twitter chat focused on boosting employment and skill development in the country.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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100 Women Who Matter: Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Newsweek Pakistan’s Benazir Shah and Bisma Ahmad got down to business with five leading women entrepreneurs in Lahore recently to talk about the hard slog.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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- entrepreneurship
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Asian Innovation: Frugal Ideas Are Spreading from East to West
Multinationals are beginning to take ideas developed in (and for) the emerging world and deploy them in the West.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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GroFin Expands Pool of SME Funding to $323 million, Enters Three New Countries
GroFin, the multinational pioneer of growth finance working to create real impact through the support of small and medium businesses, has announced a growth in funds under management from $260 million to $323 million.
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- Press Release
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- North Africa & Near East
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A Changing Innovation Landscape
At a time when the global economy continues to be in a state of flux and the emerging economies are also beginning to feel the impact of this uncertainty, my mind races to the proverbial thought of viewing the glass as half empty or half full. I choose the latter.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Featured Event: Sankalp, Stitching Together the Social Enterprise Mosaic in India
The Sankalp Forum was created with the belief that social entrepreneurs have a role to play in development and inclusive growth. As one CEO put it the Sankalp Forum is not only "bringing together all the pieces of the social enterprise ecosystem, it forms the mosaic and gives the background in which the entire picture would shine.” At our annual summit on April 12-13, this is exactly what we will attempt to do.
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- Entrepreneurship
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From ‘A-Ha’ to Impact: Making it to Market
But like many “breakthrough” innovations such as digital cameras, tablets, and Apple’s pinch-and-zoom screen function (born in 1983), social impact technologies often languish before really reaching the market.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Start-ups to be Taxed on Funds from Angel Investors
Start-ups raising money from angel investors will have to pay income tax from April on the funds they receive after the national budget on Friday proposed to treat the capital received as income from other sources, if the consideration received for issue of shares exceeds the face value of such shares.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia