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Karnani’s ’Fighting Poverty Together’ Advocates Eclectic Approaches
Aneel Karnani, perhaps one of the best-known skeptics of Base of the Pyramid approaches, corporate social responsibility and microcredit has a new book, Fighting Poverty Together. In it, Karnani levels familiar criticisms, but also provides many suggestions for how businesses, NGOs and governments should address poverty alleviation.
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Vouchers Are Putting Kenyan Women in Charge of Care
A collaboration of the Kenyan government, German development bank KfW, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers aims to reduce pregnancy-related deaths through incentives. The program offers vouchers to stimulate demand from low-income consumers to seek care for pregnancies and to reimburse high-quality healthcare suppliers for providing the contracted services.
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