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The William Davidson Institute announces its Bottom of the Pyramid Summit

Set for October 21, the three-day event takes stock and charts a course.

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Move over, angel investors, crowdfunding is changing the rules of the game

As banks rein in lending options for entrepreneurs, crowdfunding’s popularity is off the charts and continuing to rise.

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From the pitch to the prize: building a company in 54 hours

Pitching your startup can be nerve-wracking. You’re condensing the idea you’ve dreamed about for months into a few sentences and sharing it with a group of strangers who can crush it or allow you to nurture it into a full-blown company.

HOW BETTER-TRAINED FARMERS ARE SLOWING BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION

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How better-trained farmers are slowing Brazil's deforestation

In Para, Brazil, farmers are turning a profit and the government is on track to slow deforestation thanks to local nonprofit Imazon, which got them to work together.

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The SunWater project: advanced solar technology for poor farmers

Paul Polak, the author of Out of Poverty, is creating the world's most inexpensive solar water pump. Here's how.

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Tech startup finds the ticket to growth with old ideas

A brand-new Mexican tech startup is making its products affordable using a centuries-old financing trick that lets startups and their customers shift their risk toward third-party investors.

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Quotable: Ebay founder on impact investing

Global capitalism has left billions of people behind. But the founder of ebay says we need to apply the power of that same market to help solve stubborn economic and social challenges.

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As public and private firms blur, Seoul mayor calls it perfectly natural

Social innovation is slowly spreading to virtually every sector of the global economy, according to the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s summer issue.

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Transforming solar pumping to eliminate rural poverty

What if we could harness the limitless power of the sun to carry water to the crops of millions of small poor farmers around the world?

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5 Questions: Making markets work for the poor in rural Georgia

In the Samstkhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, Mercy Corps is taking a different approach to improving the livelihoods of small-scale farmers: not through charity, but through market-based interventions.

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Business schools drive a global boom in social entrepreneurship

An MBA in social enterprise isn’t just for a few elites anymore. Studies from Harvard Business School and Bridgespan Group show social enterprise exploding at business schools around the world.