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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, these customers don’t even know our cookstove exists, so before we even get to delivery, we have to figure out how to help people discover our product. From this, we learned that our products require a highly trained representative who can speak to the benefits of our stove in front of customers who are willing to purchase it.

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How to Create Youth Jobs After Conflicts

Harvard Business Review

Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. Across most developing countries, there is a model for job training where youth are assisted to acquire basic skills.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Army staffers now develop individual strategies to overcome these barriers, connecting families to community services to achieve self-sufficiency. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance.

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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge

Harvard Business Review

Without economies of scale, they argued, developing societies would never develop the efficiencies needed to modernize. To address the needs of youth in developing countries, BRAC launched a girls' empowerment program, Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), in 2008. So BRAC got into food processing.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Discussion abounds in the development sector today about the best ways to empower the poor. Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. Take the issue of youth unemployment.