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Switching from BPO to BoP education

This post delineates the contribution of technical training to employ a large labour-force at the base of the pyramid in India. Most approaches so far were low-tech programmes, confined to small scale. The BPO movement which revolutionized the employment scenario in India can now be leveraged for the BoP sector […]

August 21, 2012

Why vocational training must be a global concern

This post highlights the vocational training scenario in Sri Lanka, recent initiatives taken and milestones left to scale, and echoes with the existent circumstances of vocational training across the world as well. It addresses the basic issue of lesser importance given to vocational training, and the price a company’s economy […]

August 21, 2012

Schooling challenges in India – and why privatization is not the answer

In Uttar Pradesh, India, the educational scenario is truly dismal. In 2002, 53 per cent of posts of principal, head teacher and vice principal were vacant. This has led even the poorer parents to look towards the low-cost private schools which, with their cost structure directly compete with public schools. […]

August 21, 2012

Justin Sandefur, Duncan Green and the public-private school debate

A recent post by Centre for Global Development blogger Justin Sandefur, criticising public schooling centres in terms of quality of teaching and talking about the benefits of private schooling, led to a long and insightful debate between Duncan Green (Oxfam blogger) and him. Read the summary of the outcome of […]

August 21, 2012

The WISE Summit, and Ghanian chain of Omega schools

The WISE Awards recognize six projects for their concrete, positive impact upon society under the theme of ‘Transforming Education’ and helping achieve the MDG2 (Millennium Development Goal 2) through innovative business models. Read more here. As one of the finalists, a low-cost school chain from Ghana, the Omega Schools have […]

August 21, 2012

SIB has £43 million to invest, surveys charities regarding their finance needs

Starting soon, the SIB or the Social Investment Business group will have £43 million to invest in in social enterprises that make lasting contributions to communities. Read more here. The SIB has also launched a survey of charities’ future financial needs and projections as a part of a strategy to […]

August 21, 2012

IFC to double its investment in Bangladesh

Improved economic conditions and increased government facilitation has prompted the private sector lending part of World Bank, the IFC to increase its investment in Bangladesh from US$250 million to US$ 400 to 600 million through its FDI sector. Read more here.

August 21, 2012

SIBs – ‘Being good pays’

Social Impact Bonds or SIBs were originally made use of in 2010 in Britain’s Peterborough prison. SIBs pay for programmes that try to cut re-incarceration rate among young miscreants at a zero initial cost to tax payers – in a pay-for-success kind of a model. Its first example in the […]

August 21, 2012

The case for impact investing in public markets

Impact investing has remained in mainstream private markets for so long simply for the reason that private deals include fewer investors with larger stakes, and investors also have influencing power. In public markets, the influence of investors is severely limited. Yet, this does not mean that they are any less […]