The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and one of…
In the effort to connect “green” business manufacturers and suppliers, Jagdish Amin and David Wheat launched HaraBara in October 2008. Businessworld features the duo’s new business-to-business platform:
HaraBara’s primary objective is to unearth ‘golden nuggets’: companies that are doing great sustainable work, and…
We all know the power of prizes to motivate innovation and so this new award will hopefully do just that:
The financial services firm, Edelweiss Capital Ltd is partnering Kubera Partners, a private equity firm based in USA to launch the Kubera-Edelweiss…
NASSCOM Foundation, the CSR branch of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies), is launching a Social Innovation Honours award.
The annual Honours aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices through exemplary use of ICT in areas of social…
Editor’s Note: Aparna Dalal works with the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium between New York University, Harvard, Yale, and Innovations for Poverty Action. FAI is focused on finding answers to how financial services can better meet the needs of poor…
The Economic Times reports that a new Government of India regulation would imply that Indian companies report the finer details of their CSR spending in financial statements filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Its an interesting move by the Government…
What happens when a law is passed in a vacuum? The answer: it doesn’t get implemented.
What happens when the government throws rules and regulations at people, without giving them the tools to apply them, or without developing enforcement mechanisms to…
Livemint reports that India’s insurance companies (private and state-owned) are expanding rapidly in rural
markets, and have topped the IRDA’s mandatory rural targets.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is Government of India body set-up to regulate the insurance sector, which has gone through…
Meena Gupta, a secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Forests, claims that the Indian government will soon add amendments to municipal solid waste management regulations, and highlighted the private sector’s role in exploring new projects. Merinews, a citizen journalism news portal,…
