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Goizueta MBAs Help Fix the Bolivian Recycling Business
On Aug. 3, seven MBA students from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School will travel to Bolivia as part of a project designed to put their skills to work solving a waste problem in the nation’s capital in Santa Cruz. The students will help determine the feasibility of building a more efficient recycling plant and creating jobs in the process.
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- Latin America
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Dirty Business
Singaporean Jack Sim wants nobody to be embarrassed by toilets as he seeks to clean up sanitation throughout the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Impact Investment and Beyond: Mapping support for social enterprises
There is a lot of excitement about social enterprise, and a lot of interest in understanding, financing and supporting these enterprises. But there has been no comprehensive data on the actual amount of capital investment and non-financial support given to social enterprises and the development of their market infrastructure. ODI undertook a study to establish existing data gaps and to see if it was both feasible and useful to compile this data. Emily Darko of ODI describes their findings.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Social Enterprises: Bubble building within the space, creating fissures in the sector
When shoeshine boys start giving stock tips, then you know something is wrong, goes an old Wall Street dictum.When this aphorism begins to resonate in the field of impact investing and social enterprises endeavouring to address some of the most intractable societal challenges of today, then it is indeed worrying.
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Banks and social enterprise
Last week, the Cooperative Bank launched the Social Enterprise Directplus account. It's specifically for community interest companies (CICs) set up with social or environmental value as their primary goal and offers a number of free banking facilities.
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The BoP Century?: The exciting (or scary) implications of demographics for global health and social enterprise (Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/20/13)
By 2100, Nigeria is projected to have a population of almost 1 billion. Other sub-Saharan African countries will also experience spectacular growth, and the population of developing countries will far surpass that of the rest of the world. We explore these possible changes and their exciting (or disturbing) implications in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-weekly Checkup.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Uganda: Social Business Will Help Defeat Poverty
On July 11, 2013, Sulaiman Madada, the state minister for the Elderly and Disabled, launched the beginning of what might be one of the best things to have happened to Uganda: a social business.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scaling social innovation: what is it?
Outsourcing public services may cut costs, but what has it got to do with social innovation and positive social change?
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- Impact Assessment
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