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Elizabeth Clark (BSc Hons Open, MA TESOL Bath) and John Hoffmire, Chairman of the Center on Business and Poverty and the Carmen Porco Chair of Sustainable Business at the Center.

As Covid-19 continues impacting on both the health and economies of nations around the world, it is perhaps time to focus on how to occupy those

2020-08-15T08:05:48-05:00Tags: |

Impact Investment, Business and Poverty

Traditional investors often put money into companies focused mainly on the returns they will see, while many nonprofits and government agencies provide funding for programs in return for measurable social impact. Impact investing attempts to join business and social concerns.

The point of impact investing is to fund companies that not only generate financial returns but also

2020-10-26T11:38:47-05:00Tags: |

The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology

It is amazing how much change can be caused by one person’s idea. The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a result of Jorn Lyseggen’s believe that with guidance and support people can achieve remarkable results. Established by the non-profit Meltwater Foundation, MEST developed its program in Accra, Ghana in 2008 as an effort

2020-07-21T08:54:08-05:00Tags: |

A “Necessity Entrepreneur”

A “necessity entrepreneur” is an individual who starts a business not because they recognize an opportunity to make money, but because there is no other option to make a living. Sadly, billions of people in the developing world with little access to education or reliable jobs are in this position. Their microbusinesses are often simple.

2020-11-11T06:05:39-06:00Tags: |

Five Myths of Employee Ownership

By John Hoffmire

Myth #1 – You have to pay a lot for your ESOP
•    There are groups such as the Beyster Institute that do all of what the private sector advisors do
•    These alternatives are available in most states
•    On the other hand, don’t ever pay too little to try a new advisor who is

2020-10-26T15:09:08-05:00Tags: |

Addressing Poverty Through Business – CRISP Social Ventures Moves Forward

By John Hoffmire

The beacon of development often conjures up images of radical innovations, disruptive models and leapfrog technologies. And yet, as nations attempt to embrace the promises of development, there is often a colossal failure of both imagination and execution in providing for even the most basic of human needs. Measurable social change, ensuring a

2021-01-02T10:41:00-06:00Tags: |

Malaria, is the end in sight?

Malaria is an illness that sickened 228 million people worldwide in 2018—405,000 of whom died. By far the greatest number affected live in Africa’s poorest countries. Africa was home to 92 percent of the malaria cases and it was where 93 percent of the malaria-related deaths took place, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

2020-02-03T09:13:36-06:00Tags: |

Short-term air pollution linked with hospital admissions, substantial costs

Hospitalizations for several common diseases—including septicemia (serious bloodstream infection), fluid and electrolyte disorders, renal failure, urinary tract infections, and skin and tissue infections—have been linked for the first time with short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5), according to a comprehensive new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In addition, the study found that

2019-12-24T06:15:51-06:00Tags: |

A better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions

An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change.

Published today in Nature, the findings are important because atmospheric CO2 has increased 40 percent since the dawn of the industrial age, contributing

2019-12-23T10:17:18-06:00Tags: |

Benefits Of Agriculture And Consumption Of Local Food

All over the world, especially in developed countries, farmers and consumers are forming communities that revolve around food grown locally, yet in Africa, traditional or local agriculture is not given the full recognition it deserves, to promote the survival of the local farmer and also to sustain the economy.

Food has always played a fundamental role

2019-12-22T09:42:55-06:00Tags: |

Consider Hydrogen

Whether the concern is rooted in polluted air, in greenhouse emissions or in a dependency on a finite supply of resources, businesses and governments worldwide have begun the search for cleaner, more abundant fuels. Words like zero-emission, once only seen in environmental reports, are now entering board room and political discourse as leaders respond to a growing demand for better management of our resources and their associated externalities.

Nowhere

2020-02-03T09:19:02-06:00Tags: |

Sometimes Small Economic Development Can Be Good Economic Development

Small NGOs will continue to be criticized by development economists for their lack of efficiencies and small economies of scale. But sometimes they have all the right components to help break families out of poverty. Sometimes, small is good.

Louela Nalzaro was desperate. As a single mom in the Philippines — a country with roughly a

2020-11-11T06:22:55-06:00Tags: |

Environment and climate issues take precedence in new CAP proposal

Climate and environmental problems are the main focus of the new multiannual EU budget proposed by the European Commission after 2020, which is reflected in the common agricultural policy (CAP), EURACTIV Poland reports.

The European Commission presented a proposal for the framework of the CAP beyond 2020 on 1 June 2018, one month after the presentation

2019-12-17T10:19:44-06:00Tags: |

Jet Stream Waves are risk to food production

In a new study published today in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase the chance of co-occurring heatwaves in major food producing regions of Northern America, Western Europe and Asia. Their research finds that these simultaneous heatwaves significantly reduce crop production across those regions, creating the

2019-12-14T14:43:16-06:00Tags: |

Fighting Poverty Project by Project: Toward a Nobel Prize

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. This is an important turn of events partly because of the enormity of the problem that they and others are trying to address. In 2019, there are still more than 550

2020-10-26T14:07:18-05:00Tags: |

CRISP Social Ventures – Transforming Nobel Ideas Into Novel Solutions

The beacon of development often conjures up images of radical innovations, disruptive models, and leapfrog technologies. And yet, as nations attempt to embrace the promises of development, there is often a disconnect between imagination and execution in providing for even the most basic of human needs. Measurable social change, ensuring a degree of social equity

2021-01-02T10:41:53-06:00

Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019

In September 2015, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted. These SDGs address a comprehensive range of issues, from poverty, health and hunger to gender equality, climate change and energy. Some parts of the world have now re-oriented themselves toward achieving the vision of a

2020-10-26T14:37:53-05:00Tags: |
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