Articles by James Militzer
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Saturday
October 19
2013Weekly Roundup – 10/19/13: Will the FI2020 movement do for financial exclusion what the MDGs have done for poverty and disease?
Since 2000, the Millennium Development Goals have focused the world’s attention on alleviating poverty, hunger and disease, mobilizing massive human and financial capital and bringing undeniable results. The takeaway: solving big problems requires a sense of purpose, specific goals – and a clear timeframe. In a few weeks, the FI2020 movement will put that formula to the test to solve the global problem of financial exclusion.
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Tuesday
October 15
2013Google Hangout with Antony Bugg-Levine: Watch the replay of our conversation with an impact investing pioneer
NextBillion Financial Innovation’s first Google Hangout took place on Oct. 15, and we hosted an outstanding guest: Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and a true pioneer in impact investing. Check out our videotaped Q&A in this post.
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- Impact Assessment
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Tuesday
October 1
2013The Future of Impact Investing: A conversation with Sasha Dichter, Acumen’s Chief Innovation Officer
Sasha Dichter is the Chief Innovation Officer at Acumen, a noted speaker and blogger - and a panelist at the William Davidson Institute’s upcoming BoP Summit on Oct. 21-23. He spoke with NextBillion Financial Innovation recently about Acumen’s approach to impact investing, growth and challenges in the sector, and the need for more risk taking and innovation.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Thursday
September 26
2013Bank vs. Telco: The simmering mobile money standoff
Professional conferences are usually heavy on information and light on emotion. But participants at Friday’s Mobile Money conference were treated to as impassioned a debate as you’re likely to see in a roomful of financial services practitioners and academics. The combatants: a banker and a telco representative competing in the mobile financial services space in Africa.
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Friday
September 20
2013Day 1 at Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions
Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California Berkeley hosted “Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions” – a conference sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this week. With mobile money entrepreneurs and representatives from large firms
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- Technology
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Wednesday
September 4
2013Applying BoP Health Care Solutions In the Developed World: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 2
Rising health care costs are an urgent problem around the world. But can the ultra affordable health care models being developed at the BoP work in wealthier countries? In Part 2 of our Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other issues that are shaping global health.
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- Health Care
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Tuesday
September 3
2013What’s Working – and What’s Not – in Global Health: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 1
BoP countries are increasingly embracing the private health care sector and using public financing to support better development of the market. In this Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other developments on the global health landscape.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Tuesday
August 20
2013‘There is no element of the market that is really safe’: Hewlett Packard’s Paul Ellingstad on health care innovation, and doing business at the BoP
The BoP hasn’t traditionally been a major focus of multinational corporations. But that’s starting to change, as major players start looking to the younger, faster-growing developing world for future growth. NextBillion Health Care spoke with Hewlett Packard’s Paul Ellingstad about the promise of technology, the importance of innovation, and the challenges and opportunities in the BoP market.
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- Health Care, Technology
