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Targeting the Ultra Poor: The Sustainable Agriculture Puzzle in India?s Most-Destitute State
Continuing our series showcasing the challenges faced by the "ultra poor," and new approaches that differ from traditional poverty alleviation interventions - this post examines the Network for Enterprise Enhancement and Development Support, a nonprofit that works in one of India’s poorest and most natural resource-rich states, Jharkhand.
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- Agriculture
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Break No Promises
With $500 million and marching orders from the Gates Foundation, banks, microfinance institutions, mobile phone operators, regulators, retailers, and telecom companies, will now venture into a world filled with informal financial mechanisms, often deeply embedded in culture and history. Will these informal mechanisms be brought along or trampled?
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Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Sustainable Employment: A Necessary Intervention for the Poor
The global rate for extreme poverty is projected to be 15% in 2015, down significantly from 42% in 1990. Still, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, is a call to explore all possible approaches to stabilize the volatile lives of the poor.
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- Environment
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