The Africa Platform 2010 conference focused on the SME finance gap (the "Missing Middle"), featuring expert panels of investors, intermediaries and entrepreneurs discussing the challenges and innovations of operating within this space. In this video, impact investors were asked about how they identified successful entrepreneurs to support. Stuart Yasgur (Managing Director of Social Investment Entrepreneurs at Ashoka), Andreas Widmer (Co-Founder, SevenFund), and Joel Montgomery (Director of International Expansion, Endeavor) talked about their methods.
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SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of April 11, 2011.
As someone who is relatively new to the world of microfinance, the past six months working with the exec team of Wokai Toronto has been eye opening. We often hear about the explosive growth and modernization that China is currently undergoing, but what gets left out is that over 100 million Chinese in rural areas live below the international poverty standard of less than a dollar a day.
