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Weekly Roundup (1/18/14): Market Building is Cool
The development agenda spotlight is widening to include not just those who design cool products, but those who truly understand BoP market dynamics. Or those who do both, like the nonprofit D-Rev.
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Will Health Benefit From India’s New CSR Rules?: Impact of the new law, which kicks in April 1, still being debated
“Social business projects” are encouraged under India’s new corporate social responsibility laws, and that bodes well for social entrepreneurs and anyone wanting to innovate in trying to reach people at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
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Light-Bulb Moments for a Nonprofit
No baby should die or be disabled because a light bulb can’t be replaced. Yet during visits to hospitals in India and other countries, Krista Donaldson often saw lifesaving phototherapy systems, used to treat infant jaundice, languishing in dusty corners because of burned-out bulbs and other seemingly simple problems.
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Successful maternal health partnership seeking scale
A year after former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched “Saving Mothers, Giving Life,” U.S. and African health leaders believe the inter-agency public-private partnership has proven that surgical and other interventions once thought to be too difficult and expensive can dramatically reduce maternal and infant death in high-mortality settings.
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Government partnerships essential to scale mhealth projects
Want to scale your mHealth solution? Mobile health implementers say the key is to engage with the government early and often so that they will eventually take over the project and bring it to scale.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Microfinance, Macro Health Benefits: Partnerships can plug service delivery gaps on the way to universal care
Financial service providers are delivering significant aspects of health care in India, giving a glimpse of how some of the biggest challenges of universal health coverage might be addressed.
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Scaling Impact Investing: Are there lessons from aid?
Will the impact investing sector ever be big enough to make a dent in the social problems it is trying to address? And what’s the best path to better financial returns and positive social or environmental impact? Acumen’s Head of Impact Tom Adams draws parallels to the history of development aid to ask how impact investing can truly scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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