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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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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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Rx for Global Health: New drug-diagnostic combos are emerging, but are our market structures ready to support them?
Traditional ways of viewing diagnostics and drugs separately are starting to blur, especially in the developed world. But new business and partnership models are needed if these boundary-spanning new technologies are to reach low-income countries.
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Focusing on the Next Generation: An exploration of enterprise impacts on child poverty
Traditional interventions to reduce poverty during early childhood are not enough. Given the magnitude of the challenge and the limitations of existing approaches, BoP enterprises have the potential to positively affect early childhood development. However, our understanding of the impact BoP ventures actually have on the lives of children remains vague, and ultimately limits their ability to improve the lives of at-risk children.
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BoP Summit: Creating the Roadmap: An ongoing discussion
The ultimate goal of last week’s BoP Summit 2013 was to set a new course for improving the next generation of enterprises serving the poor. It’s an ambitious goal, and the summit leadership group decided the best way to accomplish it was to divide the tasks into nine working groups filled by the 200 attendees. Now it’s your turn to shape it.
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Day 2 at the BoP Summit: Urgent, but practical, action
On Day Two, attendees of the BoP Summit took a more functional role – brainstorming solutions to the challenges facing BoP ventures today and starting to map the future path of this vital field that aims to lift people out of poverty.
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