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Category Archives: Strategy and Performance
Video: D. Talks – Amir Dossal, Chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum
By Cecilia Chen and Sanchali Pal Recently, Amir Dossal, Chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum and Co-Initiator of the Pearl Initiative, visited Dalberg New York to deliver a D. Talk on corporate philanthropy’s shift from charity to smart investment. Mr. … Continue reading
BRICS: Can South Africa represent the entire continent?
by Daniel Kaplan and Devang Vussonji In the kingdom of developing countries, there used to be the big four: China, the assembly line of the world; India, the world’s back-office; Russia, the energy behemoth; and Brazil, the biofuel and large-scale … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Brazil, BRICS, BRICS summit, China, development, India, Russia, South Africa, trade
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Mapping the Landscape of Emerging Aid Donors
By Paul Callan, Jasmin Blak, and Andria Thomas The first blog in this series addressed the attention given to Chinese foreign assistance. Yet China is only one of several emerging donor countries that are providing an increasingly significant contribution to … Continue reading
Perpetually Improving Performance: A Q&A with Global Operating Partner Paul Callan
Paul Callan has been with Dalberg for over 10 years. During that time, he has been heavily involved in Dalberg’s internal development – he designed the firm’s first knowledge management database, and for the past three years, has chaired the People & … Continue reading
The Inequality of the “Great Equalizer:” Closing the Internet access gender gap
by Chris Denny-Brown and Andria Thomas In one case, a young Indian woman with an Engineering degree found that her family preferred she not use the household computer, for fear that – as a woman – it would break if … Continue reading
Funding Burundi’s Future: Donor conference more than doubles fundraising goal
More than 450 representatives from the public and private sectors gathered in Geneva last week to discuss opportunities for partnership and financial support for economic and social development in Burundi. The conference, which aimed to raise $1.1 billion from donors, … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Burundi, CSLP II, donor conference, donors, funding, partnerships, poverty reduction, UNDP
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Assessing inclusive business needs in India and Sri Lanka
by Priya Pingali As successful market-based solutions to development challenges become more prolific, the separation between private sector methods and public objectives is growing obsolete. Inclusive businesses in particular are playing an increasingly important role in improving the quality of … Continue reading
Strengthening Burundi through partnership, good governance
Burundi is quickly becoming one of East Africa’s development success stories. In the 1990s, the ethnic violence between the Hutus and the Tutsis had devastating effects on Burundi’s population, leaving 200,000 dead, 140,000 internally displaced, and forcing an additional 48,000 … Continue reading
Linking growth markets at the World Export Development Forum
by Tamara Pironnet Emerging markets are showing considerable resilience to the global economic downturn. As growth continues to be sluggish in more mature markets, private companies and investors are actively seeking new opportunities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Countries … Continue reading
Creating sustainable livelihood opportunities in the Himalayas
In the foothills of the Himalayas, nearly seven hours from the nearest train station, sits Avani, an NGO focused on creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for local communities. Founded in 1997 by a couple from Delhi named Rashmi Bharti and Rajnish … Continue reading
