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Quinoa, Dairy, Coffee: Value Chains and Rural Microcredit in Bolivia
Bolivia has grown famous for its 20-year history in microfinance. As part of my research with microfinance group Sembrar Sartawi, I travelled to a number of predominantly poor small towns across Bolivia to better understand how three value chains - quinoa, dairy and coffee production - each defined the ways in which micro-loans are provided.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Embracing Failure at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
In business, failure is part of the game, but this reality is often taboo in the social sector. At Root Cause, Phil Buchanan of Tactical Philanthropy provided his thoughts on the importance of "learning from history" from successful philanthropic cases.
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- Social Enterprise
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- failure, social enterprise
