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Paul Polak on global poverty solutions
Paul Polak with Pope Francis, June 2014, following a discussion about ending global poverty The widely followed website Business Fights Poverty features the “Top 10 Discussions of 2014,” and there on...
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These Hilarious Inflated Backpacks Are Actually Delivering Cheap Local Energy...
Cheap energy This may be the most off-beat answer ever to the challenge of providing cheap energy for villagers around the world. It’s already in place in Ethiopia and Chile, and the inventor, a...
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Do impact investors expect too much?
The history of microfinance shows how far off-mission social enterprise can go under the weight of massive investment. By Mal Warwick, Paul DiLeo, and Paul Polak Today, microfinance is estimated to be...
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Reducing environmental impact is smart business
In the early days of Corporate Social Responsibility, that label was generally taken to imply doing something about a company’s environmental impact. Though the more serious practitioners of CSR have...
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A business solution to poverty
By Jose Rene C. Gayo – BusinessWorld Online, Manila, Philippines THE TITLE of this article was inspired by the book by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick entitled The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing...
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Whether fighting poverty or making widgets, happy employees will make a...
By Mal Warwick and Paul Polak Success in business today requires a whole new set of management skills that were either entirely ignored or under-appreciated in times past. Naturally, technical...
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What impact investors can learn from microfinance
Women conduct accounting of microloan payments in India. Microcredit is only a way of reducing some of the stress of poverty, not of eliminating it. Photo by: Peter Haden / CC BY Here is part 1 of an...
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Is microfinance true impact investment?
SKS Microfinance clients in India. Did microfinance chase profits at the expense of the poor the industry purports to help? Photo by: Kalyan Neelamraju / CC BY-NC-SA Here is Part 2 of a two-part...
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Paul Polak’s approach: reducing rural carbon emissions
A treadle pump at work in Bangladesh. In India, however, 19 million diesel pumps power irrigation, producing carbon emissions by the millions of tons. Today, in India alone, 19 million diesel engines...
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Could THIS be the solution to global poverty?
Is there a practical way for poor people like these to lift themselves out of poverty? By Mal Warwick Recently an organization named FXB published a full-page ad in The New York Times under the...
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