Madgy Martinez-Soliman, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
Hans-Jurgen Beerfeltz, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Hans-Jurgen Beerfeltz, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for … from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. […]
Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development: Audience Q&A
Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development: Audience Q&… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development: Audience Q&A
Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development: Audience Q&… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
John Fallon, CEO, Pearson
John Fallon, CEO, Pearson from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more information, visit: mdgs.businessfightspoverty.org
Business and the New Development Agenda: Q&A
Business and the New Development Agenda: Q&A from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more information, […]
Business and the New Development Agenda: Q&A
Business and the New Development Agenda: Q&A from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more information, […]
Panel Discussion: Business and the New Development Agenda
Panel Discussion: Business and the New Development Agenda from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Panel Discussion: Charting a Way Forward – Options for Business Involvement in a Post-MDG Framework
Panel Discussion: Charting a Way Forward – Options for Business Inv… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global […]
Panel Discussion: Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development
Panel Discussion: Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Develo… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Panel Discussion: Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Business
Panel Discussion: Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Bu… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For […]
Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Business: Q&A
Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Business: Q&A from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Business: Q&A
Creating an Enabling Environment for Inclusive Business: Q&A from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Panel Discussion: Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development (2)
Panel Discussion: Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Develo… from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at “Business, the MDGs and Beyond”, New York, 25 September 2012. The event was convened by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Global Compact. For more […]
Fashion and Women’s Economic Development, 7pm, 24 September, London
Scale Up: How do Social Enterprises Meet the Challenge? 6.30 pm, 24 September, New York
Not everything that counts, can be counted
‘Not everything that counts, can be counted’ is the sentiment of Stephen Kenzie, Manager of the UK Secretariat of the UN Global Compact (UNGC). This point may be contested by many of our economist team members here in the Globalisation Team at the Institute of Development Studies, but he provided a compelling argument all the […]
Is Business the New Charity?
Investing in small business and new ventures is a good thing and vital to our communities, but we must not confuse it with charity or strategic long-term social investment. In my recent interview with Jim Koch, founder of Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company), he reflected on the traditional philanthropic activities of his company and peers. […]
Smarter Impact: A new approach to enabling inclusive economic development in the information age
We are living in exciting times. Information and communications technology has already radically changed the world in which we live in for the better. The lives of billions have been transformed – those that were once isolated or living in remote locations are now connected in a way that offers a wealth of opportunities. The […]
Forget poverty. Let's talk about business
In an article I just finished for How Magazine on the future of design, I used Paul Polak as an example of why generalists are so important to the world right now. I said, “For example, it would be easy to think of global development pioneer Paul Polak as an expert in alleviating poverty, but […]