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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. To gain traction with that upper-middle class — and their disposable income — entrepreneurs need the ability to blend international quality standards with African design. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

applied for Teach for America—including 10% of the graduating classes of Dartmouth and Yale. Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise.

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