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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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Happy World Savings Day: Here are 10 microsavings lessons to help you celebrate today’s other holiday
As you probably know, October 31st is Halloween. But you might not know that it’s also World Savings Day - and this year, the event coincides with the end of a 4-year microsavings project at Grameen Foundation. The project has helped create 850,000 new active savings accounts throughout India, the Philippines and Ethiopia. Grameen Foundation’s Kimberly Davies shares the biggest learnings to come out of the project.
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Micro-Franchising: How Business-in-a-Box Can Change Development: Why Jibu, a clean water franchise, sees power in local ownership
Micro-franchising lends the emerged market’s corporate advantage to local, emerging market entrepreneurs - propelling local innovations and adaptation. Jibu is piloting this model for clean water distribution. Why co-founder Galen Welsch thinks they may be onto something.
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