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C. K. Prahalad Discusses Development Through Private Enterprise

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: April 12, 2009

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of …

Posted in Change-Agent | Also tagged BoP, bottom of the pyramid, construction, developing countries, economic growth, emerging markets, Energy, Environment, Innovation, InSPIRE, lighting, markets, NextBillion, NextBillion.net, Opportunities, poverty, poverty alleviation, Prahalad, Renewable, renewable energy, sustainability, YouTube | Leave a comment

HaraBara Builds Greener Pastures

By Shital Shah | Published: January 27, 2009

In the effort to connect “green” business manufacturers and suppliers, Jagdish Amin and David Wheat launched HaraBara in October 2008. Businessworld features the duo’s new business-to-business platform:

HaraBara’s primary objective is to unearth ‘golden nuggets’:

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged ADB, BusinessWorld, David Wheat, distrubtion network, Energy, Environment, green business, HaraBara, Jagdish Amin, laws, online platform, Rural, rural India, Social Entrepreneurship, Solar, Technology, wheat | 2 Comments

Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours

By Vinay Ganti | Published: November 10, 2008

We all know the power of prizes to motivate innovation and so this new award will hopefully do just that:

The financial services firm, Edelweiss Capital Ltd is partnering Kubera Partners, a private equity firm based in USA to launch

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Awards, Basic Rights, criteria, Edelcap, EdelGive Foundation, Education, financial services, for profit, Girl Child, girls, Health, Innovation, Kubera-Edelweiss, nutrition, Private Equity, prize, Prizes, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Social Innovation Honours, Social Venture Capital, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action]: NASSCOM Foundation Social Innovation Honours

By Shital Shah | Published: September 29, 2008

NASSCOM Foundation, the CSR branch of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies), is launching a Social Innovation Honours award.

The annual Honours aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices through exemplary use of ICT in areas of

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Awards, call to action, CSR, Education, Employment, Environment, for profit, Government, Health, Innovation, leadership, NASSCOM, NASSCOM Foundation, non-profit, Social Innovation, Social Innovation Honours, software, TC-I Call to Action, Technology | Leave a comment

[Guest Post]: Health Microinsurance Models

By Shital Shah | Published: September 3, 2008

Editor’s Note: Aparna Dalal works with the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium between New York University, Harvard, Yale, and Innovations for Poverty Action. FAI is focused on finding answers to how financial services can better meet the needs of…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged CIC, Finance/Credit, Financial Access Initiative, financial services, Guest Post, Harvard, Health, Health Insurance, ICICI, ICICI Lombard, Innovation, Insurance, meeting, MFI, Micro Insurance Academy, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, microinsurance, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, poverty, poverty line, Pune, risks, scalability, service provider, SKS, Trade, Transaction, transaction costs, Trip to India, Uplift | 5 Comments

Could this trigger the responsible investing movement in India?

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: June 18, 2008

The Economic Times reports that a new Government of India regulation would imply that Indian companies report the finer details of their CSR spending in financial statements filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Its an interesting move by…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged CSR, Economic Times, economy, financial statements, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Government, Government of India, Inclusive Growth, Responsible Investing, SRI, sustainability, TIAA-CREF | Leave a comment

Putting Laws into Practice: The Case of Rainwater Harvesting

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: June 6, 2008

What happens when a law is passed in a vacuum? The answer: it doesn’t get implemented.

What happens when the government throws rules and regulations at people, without giving them the tools to apply them, or without developing enforcement mechanisms…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged central ground water authority, Environment, Government, Incentives, laws, rainwater harvesting, Recycling, SMS, Times of India, waste | 2 Comments

Using Regulation to promote Social Business: The case of IRDA

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: May 12, 2008

Livemint reports that India’s insurance companies (private and state-owned) are expanding rapidly in rural markets, and have topped the IRDA’s mandatory rural targets.

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is Government…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged BoP, cellphones, CSR, Finance/Credit, Government, Government of India, Insurance, IRDA, livemint, markets, microinsurance, NRI, Rural, rural business, rural markets, SMS, Social business | Leave a comment

Midday Newsfeed

By Shital Shah | Published: April 10, 2008

Technology: Although it is a hub for information technology, India is only #50 on the world’s most networked economies list, partly due to its poor ICT infrastructure.
Health: According to a survey, in the next decade, one

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agricola Medal, Agriculture, civil society, death, Energy, Environment, FAO, foreign, foreign contribution, Government, government regulations, Grassroots Initiatives, Green Investor Summit, Health, iGovernment, infrastructure, Manmohan Singh, networked economies, New Ventures, new ventures india, NGOs and Non-profits, OneWorld, poverty, SEED, Singh, smoking, survey, Technology, United Nations | Leave a comment

Solid Waste Management – A PPP Opportunity?

By Shital Shah | Published: April 9, 2008

Meena Gupta, a secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Forests, claims that the Indian government will soon add amendments to municipal solid waste management regulations, and highlighted the private sector’s role in exploring new projects.

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Chennai, Environment, Exnora, Government, India Together, Indian government, journalism, Merinews, Ministry of Environment and Forests, NGO, Opportunities, partnerships, portal, PPP, PPPs, primer, public private partnership, Public Sector, Recycling, risks, SKS, SMS, Solid waste management, Tamil Nadu, waste, waste management, World Bank, Worldbank | 15 Comments

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