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Four ways to build an ecosystem to support business in low-income markets: How the Philippines is crafting a model worth replicating
The Philippines has proven itself an excellent example of a nation’s capacity to support ecosystem development, a model that could well be replicated in many countries. As UNDP looks to replicate the success of its country-level collaboration through the Business Call to Action Initiative in the Philippines, it is establishing a collaboration with the William Davidson Institute as part of the BoP Roadmap Initiative.
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Building Inclusion Into the Pyramid: Introspection, evalution in revealing the ‘BoP Roadmap’
Is the Base of the Pyramid concept in need of a recharge? That’s what two of its founding fathers think. Along with some re-energizing, it’s a concept that could use some humility as well. This introspection and evaluation comes at a time when many others at the intersection of commerce and development are doing the same thing.
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Special Webinar Event: WDI hosts Kitrhona Cerri, Social Capital Manager at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The WBCSD is a CEO-led organization of forward thinking companies that galvanizes the global business community to create a sustainable future. It works with its members to re-define, measure and appraise corporate performance beyond financial indicators. Kitrhona Cerri, the Social Capital Manager of WBCSD’s Redefining Value Program, will join WDI for a webinar on Sept. 30, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM ET.
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Bringing IT Jobs to Rural India: Betting long on India’s youth
In many BoP markets, there is a gap between the talent requirements of employers and the skills of candidates in the job market. Half of India’s 1.2 billion people are under the age of 25, yet only a privileged few will complete advanced studies and be considered employable by the IT sector. Impact sourcing firm iMerit is turning that dynamic into a strength.
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- Technology
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Weekly Roundup – 7/4/14: Finding best buys in global health, and not falling in love with ideas
The Medical Credit Fund recently won OPIC’s Access to Finance award, for figuring out ways to give loans to small rural health clinics in Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The kicker: The fund has given loans to more than 500 health care providers and its repayment rate is 97.3 percent.
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- Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals
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Taking a Multi-Dimensional View: Free WDI webinar series on assessing poverty impact
Many BoP ventures struggle to capture a complete picture of what is going on inside their organization. WDI’s Heather Esper on a new webinar series focused on how to how ventures can understand how their actions are truly influencing poverty.
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Check Out a Replay of Our Latest Google Hangout : A Q&A with the winners of the 2014 Case Writing Competition
As you may have heard, earlier this week we announced the top five winners in the fourth NextBillion Case Writing Competition, sponsored by the Citi Foundation. Now it’s time to hear from the scholars and contributors behind the winning cases.
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Congratulations to the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition Winners
Expanding solar products in Africa, reducing infant blindness for premature babies in India, branding an organic biodegradable chewing gum from farmers in Mexico - these were among the winning business cases in our annual competition.
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