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Tools for Teaching About Business at the BoP: Initiative seen as a way to raise students’ awareness of the potential in developing countries
The Business Schools for Impact (BSI) site is up and running, and offers a growing body of course materials and case studies from top institutions. BSI also offers internship opportunities, and one of its goals is to eventually build a full-fledged integrated Global Impact Master program.
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Industry Emerging from the Rubble in Haiti: How building skills locally through community networks can create sustainable businesses
Throughout the street markets in Port-au-Prince, a growing corps of entrepreneurs – mostly women – is helping the fuel-efficient stove market take root, showing how empowered local businesses, even in the poorest and most difficult-to-navigate environments, can create sustainable enterprises that employ and train local workers.
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NexThought Monday – ‘The Neglected Stepchild of Global Health’: About 5 billion people have no access to basic surgical care
Considering the fact that approximately 5 billion people have no access to basic surgical care, now is the time to make surgery a global health priority, say Dr. James Bernstein and Huma Malik of Eniware. They describe ways this care can be delivered, even in low-resource settings that lack the fundamental infrastructure that surgery usually requires.
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Expats, the ‘scaffolds’ of locally led organizations
“Why does Nuru Kenya have to be locally led?” Jake pressed. “Why can’t expats continue the work?"“Maybe we aren’t asking the right question,” I responded, straightening up in my chair. “Instead of asking why should we exit, perhaps we should ask, why should we stay?”
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New Mothers Get A New Kind Of Care In Rural Nigeria
How do you help a country struggling to provide quality health care, particularly to its rural citizens?More doctors would be great. New and better clinics would help. But in some places, community health workers are an important part of the solution.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fighting poverty by helping find jobs
Dedicated to connecting the right job seeker with the right employer in this unstructured segment, Bengaluru-based start-up babajob.com uses the internet, mobile apps and a variety of other routes.
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- South Asia
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OPINION: Surgery so simple a gardener can do it – but he probably shouldn’t
The poorest one-third of the world’s population receives about 4 percent of surgical care. Africa has roughly 1 percent of the number of surgeons in the United States. Liberia has three surgeons for a population of 4 million. Failure to address this inequity is economically and politically reckless.
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India’s Skills Training Maze : Why the country needs strong certification standards
Access to skills training is important, but the quality of the training is proving even more critical to the success of students. Without strong quality benchmarks, both employers and students will quickly lose trust in the skills development ecosystem, jeopardizing a widespread vision of a skilled India.
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- Education
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