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Banking on Women and Girls: Key to Global Poverty Alleviation

Harvard Business Review

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit.

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

Harvard Business Review

In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo. Inspired by Domino’s motorbike deliverymen in Mumbai, with boxes that can maintain the heat of the pizza, our boxes attach to Burners’ motorbikes, making it easy to transport stoves to demonstrations or home deliveries. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.