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Most Influential Post Winner: Finding the Right Last-Mile Distribution Model
This post, which addresses a recent effort to share what works and doesn't work in bringing market-driven solutions to base-of-the-pyramid customers, was the most popular NextBillion article in September. That earned it a place in our annual Most Influential Post contest. You can vote for it, or any of the other 11 contenders, through Jan. 2. The winner will be announced on Jan. 4.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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Breathing Life Into Oxygen Access: How New Partnerships are Saving Lives
Oxygen is a precious and rare commodity in health facilities in developing countries, and thousands of babies die for lack of it every year specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, where oxygen is seldom available and is very expensive. Partnerships such as Hewa Tele have made a dent in the global crisis, but the problem requires a concerted effort to scale solutions around delivery, knowledge and policy.
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- Health Care
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Where Aggregators – and Open APIs – Fit Into Financial Inclusion
The introduction of a truly Open API is an exciting prospect for individuals and institutions interested in financial inclusion – digital financial providers, economists, technologists and developers alike. Building a successful business model, however, requires that the Open API is technically sound and that the financial inclusion community is included and encouraged to collaborate on innovative solutions.
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- Inclusive Fintech, Technology
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How Social Enterprises and Impact Investors Can Move the Needle to Achieve the SDGs
Betting on social entrepreneurship to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs makes sense from an impact and a financial return perspective, but the sector requires both financial and non-financial support. To put it simply, entrepreneurs need to unlock three doors: finance, market and talent.
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- Investing
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Second-Generation Graduation: New Ways to Scale a Proven Anti-Poverty Model
This post, the first in a series by Fundación Capital exploring the Graduation strategy as a way to pull people out of extreme poverty, looks at how the concept is evolving. With more governments investing in Graduation, and more technological tools being applied, Tatiana Rincon suggests that "we stand at the edge of change that could lead to a world without poverty."
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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On the Podcast: What’s next for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership? An Interview with CEO Mark Gunton
In the latest NextBillion Podcast, we chat with Mark Gunton, CEO of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. This is a pivotal time for CGEP, as its connection to the Clintons has brought intense scrutiny from the media and politicians during this presidential campaign. In our wide-ranging discussion, Gunton discusses the election's potential impact on CGEP, and talks about its approach to scaling enterprises, some mistakes it made early on, and his concerns about how social entrepreneurship is practiced today.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals
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India vs. Pakistan: The Pros and Cons of Two Radically Different Digital ID Systems
India’s digital identification system, Aadhaar, has registered nearly 80 percent of India’s 1.3 billion citizens. Just across the border, Pakistan's NADRA system has issued 120 million identities among the country's 180 million citizens. Both systems give citizens an ID and can give them access to both government and commercial services, yet they are radically different. Which approach provides the best model for other countries?
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- Technology
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Inclusive Business Partnerships: Distracting Dead End or Sustainable Solution?
If anything has been proven in the past decade of inclusive business, it's that “go it alone” doesn't work. The enterprises that are going to scale have partners. The other inescapable facts are that partnering is hard and some partnerships don't work. The problem is perhaps that partnering is assumed to be something that just happens and anyone can do it.
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- Entrepreneurship
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