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		<title>Why you need to go beyond the numbers to view rural poverty</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/07/11/why-you-need-to-go-beyond-the-numbers-to-view-rural-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past decade, much progress has been made in India and people have been justifiably proud of the improving economic situation. While most observers point to the top line numbers that show the number of people living below the “poverty line” has been consistently decreasing, by focusing on just these aseptic numbers, they fail to understand and capture the continuing anguish in the rural countryside.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=513&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIECON Social Enterprise Track Provides New Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time TIECON EAST – TiE Boston’s annual conference on entrepreneurship and innovation - had a dedicated track on Social Enterprise. The three panels for the track were all well attended. Here are some excerpts from an article I wrote for Lokvani about the sessions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=482&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to comment about Rural Indian Consumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to a comment on my recent blog post on "The Increasing Focus on the Rural Indian Consumer" I decided to write a longer response outlining what needs to be done to really address increasing rural income in India.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=461&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Development Design Summit</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/08/08/international-development-design-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the final presentation of the International Development Design Summit at MIT - the brainchild of Amy Smith, MacArthur Fellow and lecturer in MIT's Mechanical Engineering department. This, now yearly, event brought together nearly 60 students from 20 countries around the world to work together with a team of mentors and staff to tackle a number of design problems facing NGOs and non-profits in developing countries.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=109&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vigyan Ashram &#8211; A Hidden Rural Education Jewel</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/07/02/vigyan-ashram-a-hidden-rural-education-jewel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to visit Vigyan Ashram in February. Vigyan Ashram is a residential rural education center founded 25 years ago. Over the years, Vigyan Ashram has significantly changed the local economy, providing livelihood to many in the region while training scores of youth and making them self sufficient. More importantly, it has now been formalized as a regular course on Rural Technology and taught at 25 schools in the state of Maharashtra.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=29&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BAIF Development Research Foundation – Sustainable Development To Support Rural Families</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/06/27/12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to spend a month in India and visited several NGOs while there. One of the innovative organizations is BAIF (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation) -- I visited their operations outside of Hubli in Northern Karnataka state and wrote an article about their work for Lokvani.com, that I have reproduced below<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=12&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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