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Inclusive Business and CSR ? How To Grow Local Innovation Clusters? Reflections From Cali
Do concepts like ’base of the pyramid’ and ’Inclusive Business’ really enter into the mainstream practice of businesses located in or close to poor communities? Do local business leaders really care about the "endless opportunities" that academic thought-leaders proclaim? Or do they smell another buzzword storm and continue with business as usual?
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Thoughts On Strategic Transitions From Humanitarian to Development Work
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), outside of improving humanitarian aid practices, may present an opportunity for us to better examine this cross-section of modern change by innovating programs that consider the important transition from short-term (humanitarian) to long-term (development and beyond) ownership of projects.
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Through SGBs, Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Developing World
Small and growing businesses (SGBs) are key to long-term poverty eradication. More and more investors are realizing that they can reap financial rewards as well as social and environmental impacts by investing in them. Our upcoming Impact Report will share research that demonstrates that in 2010 alone, 31 new funds targeting SGBs were launched.
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In Search of Innovation: Prize Incentives for International Development
As competitions like the Automotive X-Prize to the NetFlix Prize show, incentive-based mechanisms also can be effective catalysts for international development. Yet as Vicky Hausman, Associate Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors tells us, ?announcing a cash reward and a set of rules is often not enough to achieve the desired result."
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Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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SOCAP 10: Harmonizing Tools to Measure Impact
Yet again, measurement continues to be a sexy topic. SOCAP 10 assembled social investors, social entrepreneurs, and supportive agencies to set the discourse on shaping an impact investing market based on transparency.
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Moving from Survival to Entrepreneurship in Haiti
As Haiti recovers from its devastating earthquake, international donors are hoping the tragedy offers a chance to set the country on a more sustainable path. A recent hearing of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing explored ways to promote growth-oriented small and micro enterprises in Haiti.
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BoP Career Paths: Interview with Agnes Dasewicz of the Grassroots Business Fund
Today’s BoP Career Path Series post features an interview with Agnes Dasewicz, Chief Operating Officer at the Grassroots Business Fund; an organization providing financing and technical assistance to high-impact enterprises at the BoP. Let’s see what Agnes had to say about the skills necessary to meet the demands of structuring BoP investments.
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