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Partnerships, Private Sector, Tech Dominate SID
With an international financial system teetering, the Horn of Africa marred by famine, and aid dollars jeopardized by domestic politics, the Society for International Development’s triennial World Congress held in Washington this weekend was in no short supply of substance or imperatives.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- nutrition, partnerships
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Less Hungry, More Human: A Marketing Perspective to Fighting Malnutrition
As the World Food Programme launches a glitzy new fundraising campaign called A Billion for A Billion, maybe it could learn from P&G’s 3D White Collection, which was the most successful non-foods new product launch in 2011, with over $151 million in sales. While the latter may not be particularly noble, marketers are clearly doing something right.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition, product design
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Quinoa, Dairy, Coffee: Value Chains and Rural Microcredit in Bolivia
Bolivia has grown famous for its 20-year history in microfinance. As part of my research with microfinance group Sembrar Sartawi, I travelled to a number of predominantly poor small towns across Bolivia to better understand how three value chains - quinoa, dairy and coffee production - each defined the ways in which micro-loans are provided.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition