The Daily Entrepreneur: Books, Loans, and Foreign Aid

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-19 17:41:00 UTC
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Links to some great books, new economic models, and some East African thinking on foreign investment:

  • Best Social Entrepreneurship Books: 30 Second Reviews: Nathan at Compassion in Politics puts together a nice list (with short key-point bullets) of some of the best books around social entrepreneurship and markets at the bottom of the pyramid.

  • Lending Club Raises $12 Million More for Peer-to-Peer Loans: VentureBeat covers a new round of investment in peer-to-peer lending company Lending Club. I think it's an example of experimenting with fundamentally alternative structures for fundamental economic processes and worth keeping track of.

  • Rwanda: Do-Gooders Can Only Do So Much: BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm shares a note from a Rwandan government responding to Steve's latest post about Rwanda being a hot spot of social innovation. Money quote:

    • Indeed the international community watched as an otherwise preventable genocide took a million lives. It is important to note that Rwanda today neither expects nor wants guilt-driven charity, but instead welcomes partners who identify, want to be associated with, and can also benefit from our vision for social and economic development, wealth creation and ultimately independence from foreign aid.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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