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Does Size Matter?: Study finds emerging companies are doing just as well as large, established counterparts when it comes to reaching BoP beneficiaries
The idea of smaller emerging companies matching initiatives from larger companies might seem counter-intuitive at first glance. But a study of dozens of inclusive businesses challenges the assumption that large companies are by definition the best route to scale at the BoP.
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Red Flags: Over-indebtedness is the yang to microcredit’s yin
While working to understand the experiences of clients suffering from severe over-indebtedness in the U.S., EA Consultants began to consider patterns that have emerged in lesser-developed countries. Barbara Magnoni, EA Consultants’ president, discusses their research and its implications for microfinance.
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Cyborg engineers, virtual doctors and wristbands to detect cancer: Futurologist reveals how tech will transform healthcare
Within the next 30 years, the global population is set to increase by almost 3 billion up to 10 billion, and this rise is set to put a heavy burden on the healthcare industry.
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Building Inclusion Into the Pyramid: Introspection, evalution in revealing the ‘BoP Roadmap’
Is the Base of the Pyramid concept in need of a recharge? That’s what two of its founding fathers think. Along with some re-energizing, it’s a concept that could use some humility as well. This introspection and evaluation comes at a time when many others at the intersection of commerce and development are doing the same thing.
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Philips, GE Healthcare going big on Connected Healthcare R&D in India
Engineers from Philips Innovation Labs and GE Healthcare in Bangalore are experimenting with mobility platforms and healthcare which will come to life in India soon in the form of a connected medical world.
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IBM Teams on First Watson Application in Africa
IBM and Metropolitan Health of South Africa have teamed to create a new health care customer service service based on Big Blue's Watson cognitive computing system.
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Profit motive big hurdle for Ebola drugs, experts say
For nearly four decades, mention of the Ebola virus has evoked death and terror, yet a simple factor—money—has stood in the way of erasing the curse, experts say.
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Mapping the Future: What to expect from the BoP Roadmap to be published next week
One year ago, the BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade, brought together over 200 leaders from more than 20 countries to reflect on what we have learned about in the BoP domain in the decade since the BoP concept was first popularized. The result of these discussions - “A Roadmap for the Base of the Pyramid Domain: Re-energizing for the Next Decade” - is a co-created action agenda that will be released next week. How to take part.
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