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Peddling Poor Products to the Poor: What’s Our Responsibility?
Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest worldwide killers, surpassing infectious diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. As large businesses like Nestl? deepen their engagement in low-income markets, increasing sales of both beneficial and deleterious products to the poor, what is our responsibility?
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New CHMI Report Highlights 5 Market-Based Health Models to Watch
CHMI looks for programs in multiple countries with the same models or similar goals, services, organizational structures, and operational processes. We’re hunting for the next Aravind-or really the next 50 Aravinds, because the field is moving that fast. Here is a list of 5 health models proliferating around the world during the past decade.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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The Doughnut Hole in Sustainable Finance
Despite the recent upsurge in attention to "social," "impact," and "clean tech" investing, there is still a structural gap ? a doughnut hole ? in sustainable finance. But this also means that there is a huge opportunity for visionary financiers to invent the new investment categories and asset classes needed to fill this gap.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment, Technology
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Telefonica and Inclusive Businesses: Interview with Alberto Andreu
Many firms are dabbling in various ways in initiatives related to inclusive businesses, social entrepreneurship, and social innovations. The challenges they face range from scope, process of forming partnerships, funding, and adjustments in the organizational structure. Telef?nica is a company that has focused strategically on these topics.
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- Entrepreneurship
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View from Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerating Social Businesses
Cooperation with different stakeholders and support for the people behind the businesses. Those were the main recommendations of the ’Challenges and opportunities for accelerators and incubators’ panel held on June 29 by Fundaci?n AVINA, Ashoka and the Walmart Institute.
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- Entrepreneurship
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The Smallholder Farmer is the Base of the Pyramid
Agriculture presents the greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs in the developing world. When we talk about the base of the pyramid, much of the time we are actually talking about farmers. This post is dedicated to shedding light on the idea that poverty alleviation can be achieved with a stronger focus on integrated agribusiness development.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- social business
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The Best of Both Worlds? Blending For-Profit and Non-Profit Models
Incorporating for-profit activities into the structure of social good organizations can have amazing consequences. It can, for instance, free these organizations from the maddeningly inconsistent funding cycle of the non-profit world. However Perennial questions remain. Can organizations do good and be profitable at the same time?
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