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Rural Finance in C?te d?Ivoire
After seven years working in the financial-sector, I joined TechnoServe in C?te d’Ivoire in September 2009 as a short-term volunteer consultant and later as an independent contractor, both positions in support of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program (CLP). My goal was to develop a system to provide farm inputs on credit to small cocoa farmers.
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R.I.P. Social Ventures?
"How do you know when to pull the plug on your idea?" That’s the question Kiwanja.net’s Ken Banks posed to me after swapping stories one afternoon about our respective startup organizations. Implementing ideas demands a physical and emotional investment, and once you’ve put so much into it, it becomes hard to know when to throw in the towel.
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