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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

All of us — researchers, policymakers, governments, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit development groups, microfinance institutions, corporations, and philanthropists — have a role to play in bringing them into the widening zone of prosperity. 5% of GDP over six years.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% in 2002, and should touch 2.0% As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market.