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The business of changing the world : how billionaires, tech disruptors, and social entrepreneurs are transforming the global aid industry / Raj Kumar, cofounder of Devex.

By: Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807059708
  • 0807059706
  • (electronic bk.)
  • (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV 25 .K86 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
The billionaire effect: disruptors with deep pockets -- The demand for results: good evidence is hard to find -- People, not widgets: what do people really need? -- The "pure" social enterprise: products with purpose -- Big business for good: corporates becoming social enterprises -- Aid goes retail: crowdfunding and direct aid -- Open source aid: the case for openness -- Systems thinking: embracing complexity -- Ending extreme poverty: getting to absolute zero by 2030 -- Ushering in a new era: what we can do.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index.

The billionaire effect: disruptors with deep pockets -- The demand for results: good evidence is hard to find -- People, not widgets: what do people really need? -- The "pure" social enterprise: products with purpose -- Big business for good: corporates becoming social enterprises -- Aid goes retail: crowdfunding and direct aid -- Open source aid: the case for openness -- Systems thinking: embracing complexity -- Ending extreme poverty: getting to absolute zero by 2030 -- Ushering in a new era: what we can do.

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