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Teach a (Wo)Man to Fish … But What if it’s Against the Law?: The Women Thrive Conference explores how training women and improving their livelihoods can address gender inequality
When we pull women out of poverty, many positive things tend to happen. So why isn’t more being done to bring about economic empowerment for women, who represent six of every 10 people living in extreme poverty? What needs to change to make more happen? These were among the questions raised at the summit, which was held by Women Thrive earlier this month.
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Business Models, Best Practices and Measures in Access to Medicine: Index to be released Monday ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve availability in developing countries
The Access to Medicine Index, which is published every two years and independently ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve access to medicine in developing countries, will be released on Monday.
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Shaping the Market for Global Health Data: Why collecting information on lower-income countries should be ‘first order of business’
The most valuable currency in global health programs today is accurate and reliable data, but such data doesn’t exist for most low-income and lower-middle-income countries – primarily because it’s expensive. The authors discuss why, and how, more data might become available.
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Top tweets from the BoP Roadmap Launch
Top tweets from the launch of the BoP Roadmap event.
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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