Articles by Scott Anderson
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Tuesday
December 4
2012NextBillion Founder WRI Exiting Partnership: The William Davidson Institute will continue to direct and invest in NB
Today, I’m announcing that the World Resources Institute (WRI) has stepped down as co-managing partner of the NextBillion network. The William Davidson Institute (WDI) will continue to direct the network of sites as sole manager of NextBillion, along with input and involvement from our Content Partners.
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Tuesday
November 27
2012Announcing NextBillion Health Care: The new blog focuses on private and public solutions
Next week NextBillion.net will launch a new sub-blog, NextBillion Health Care, which will address the myriad challenges and solutions in delivering health care to the BoP. The blog will focus on the best practices of social enterprises, health practitioners, large health systems, NGOs and multinational players, such as drug companies, supply chain systems and technology developers. It will also focus on public policy solutions for improving health outcomes for low-income people.
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- Education, Health Care
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Sunday
November 18
2012Weekly Roundup: Big Deals, Big Reports and the Bono Bump
Bamboo Finance and Accion Investments in Microfinance, SPC this announced what they called a “landmark” transaction for the impact investment industry. And based on what I’ve read this week, it’s hard not to see it any other way. Private equity firm Bamboo Finance will take a controlling stake in Accion’s for-profit equity fund, which for nearly 10 years has provided capital to microfinance institutions.
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- Agriculture
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Monday
November 12
2012NexThought Monday: Higher Education Solutions Network and the (Potential) Power Specialization: USAID’s ambitious new program will link universities, science and development
On Friday, USAID announced the launch of a Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) — an ambitious five-year partnership linking seven American and foreign universities to harness the insights of students and professors in science and technology to combat a variety of global health and development challenges.
To start, USAID is providing $26 million across the seven institutions, and could supply a total ceiling $130 million over the life of the program. The universities making up the HESN include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California – Berkeley, Michigan State University, Duke University, Texas A&M University, The College of William & Mary, and Makerere University in Uganda. The goal is to apply science and technology, as well as entrepreneurship, to define and solve key problems in areas such as global health, food security and chronic conflict. USAID said the network will consist of 22 additional funded, and 76 non-funded partners in the U.S. and overseas.- Categories
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- research
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Thursday
November 8
2012New Faces and a New Way to Subscribe to NextBillion: We’re launching a new e-newsletter
Whether it’s by RSS, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+, or Google Currents app, there are plenty of ways to keep in touch with NextBillion’s blog posts, news items, events and jobs. Today, we’re offering one more with the NextBillion e-newsletter.
Our first email newsletter will go out in December, and you can sign up clicking on the button on the homepage and entering your email address. That’s it.- Categories
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Sunday
November 4
2012Weekly Roundup: Taking a Closer Look at India’s Socent Prowess
There’s little argument that India has become the world’s testbed for both financial inclusion and social enterprise incubator exploration. Two studies that came across the NextBillion transom in recent weeks take a step back to explore the quickly germinating networks underlying both, as well as identify the gaps.
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- incubators
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Thursday
November 1
2012The Best of October on NB: The most-read, most-commented and ‘hidden gem’ posts of the month
After several months on hiatus, I’m glad to reprise our monthly awards for the best of the best on NextBillion for the month gone by. Thank you to all NextBillion contributors and congratulations to our monthly most-read, most-commented and hidden gem posts.
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Saturday
October 27
2012Weekly Roundup: Being the Change, With Humility
Earlier this month, the IFC released a report called "Being the Change: Inspiring the Next Generation of Inclusive Business Entrepreneurs Impacting the Base of the Pyramid." It’s based on interviews with 14 founders and CEOs of IFC’s inclusive business clients. These are truly inspiring stories about how BoP businesses are formed and the personalities that drove an idea to reality.
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