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Online Microfinance Loan Guarantees: The Model of United Prosperity
United Prosperity is a young non-profit that turns social investors into social guarantors through an ingenious tweak to the standard P2P microfinance model. This approach increases the capital invested and can build self sufficiency in the local economy by creating formal relationships between MFIs and commercial banks.
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Inventors and Innovators – Aligned with the Poor
I spent the latter part of the week at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) in San Francisco. In this post I’ll highlight some of the most interesting teams and trends - then I hope to get into the question of the role of American engineers in base of the pyramid innovation.
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