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Economies of Scale or Diseconomies of Enormity: Should there be more mergers and acquisitions of international development NGOs?
In the for-profit sector, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are ways to ensure that the most effective organizations survive and achieve greater scale. This improves cost-effectiveness in the overall market and spreads best practices more widely. But with the large numbers of NGOs in international development, why don’t we see more M&A activity in the non-profit sector? In light of the recent Merlin and Save the Children merger, WDI’s Prashant Yadav explores some reasons.
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- philanthropy, scale
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Q&A With Arun Gore Of Gray Ghost Ventures: ‘Social Impact Needs Scale’
Esha Chhabra (@esh2440) chats with Arun Gore, the president and CEO of Gray Ghost Ventures, about the global impact investing movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- scale
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NexThought Monday – Want to Scale Impact? Be Wary of Hard and Fast Conclusions: We know a lot, but there is much more to learn
Just because financial goals are good for long-term sustainability does not mean the converse holds i.e. that prioritizing social goals will undermine impact. The conclusion that I have most difficultly with is that “those who prioritized financial goals over social goals were much more likely to experience high rates of growth and have greater social impact.” It is a pretty bullish ‘and.’ The whole question hinges on one’s definition of impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- scale
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World Bank: Africa’s economic growth to outpace average
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa should significantly outpace the global average over the next three years, according to the World Bank.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- poverty alleviation, scale
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The Next Million: Grameen Shakti – an innovative model for rural energy business
A small group of people began experimenting how to bring solar electricity to rural Bangladesh and in 1996 started its first rural renewable energy service company – Grameen Shakti – which literally translates to rural energy. The company installed 20 solar systems by the end of 1996, 2,800 systems after a decade of growth, and on Nov. 30, 2012 – 16 years after its launch – installed a total of 1 million solar systems in village homes, schools, clinics and businesses.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy, scale, solar
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The Need to Scale: Social Enterprises and Community Health
“Community health workers: Now that is a profession that must be compensated.”
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- scale, social enterprise
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Advancing Impact Investing Platforms… Promise and Peril!: We can’t always assume all investment strategies must scale
Impact Investing is not a single hammer looking for all the nails in the world—it is a diverse and dynamic approach to creating innovative applications of capital in appropriate ways to maximize potential impact. While the promise of investment platforms is, uh, promising, it is important we not start our discussion with the assumption that all investment strategies must scale!
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- impact investing, scale
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Poor Infrastructure may hinder gains of mobile money market
Nigeria's mobile money market is worth $7.2 billion according to Accenture, however the prevalence of poor infrastructure is hindering its takeoff.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- scale