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Welcome to the new Expert Blog Series! We have gathered some of the industry's brightest minds to discuss challenges and seek innovation around APS education quality, policy and impact investing. We hope you enjoy the discussions and invite you share your thoughts, comments or suggestions on topics of interest.

Welcome to the Impact Investing is a Verb? Blog Series

Jan 01, 2011
Welcome to the "Impact Investing is a Verb?" Blog Series! We have gathered some of the industry's brightest minds to provide their thoughts and opinions on the market potential of investing in education and persuasive critiques on wha
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Small Investments in APS Can Deliver Significant Impact

Feb 21, 2011
[This blog is part of  the "Impact Investing is a Verb?" blog series.]  Having great systems in place is not enough to bring about change. There is a need to dig deeper to ensure pre-conditions to its success are put in place. I
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An Explosion of Private Equity in Education

Mar 14, 2011
[This blog is part of  the "Impact Investing is a Verb?" blog series.]  In recent years, interest has grown in the investment community about the opportunity to invest in education products and services in developing countries.
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Growing Need To Explore More Investment Opportunities in the APS sector

Mar 23, 2011
Enterprising Schools is a nonprofit effort focused on developing entrepreneurial solutions to the lack of quality education worldwide.  The bulk of the movement's efforts focus on the concept of the "affordable private school" (A
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Brand power in low-cost private schools

Apr 19, 2011
Even as tiny for-profit low-cost private schools mushroom across developing countries, the sector is also seeing a quieter trend of consolidation. This consolidation is seen in terms of school brands that are garnering schools under one brand name
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Why is there a market for affordable private schools? In some cases, they are the only option.

May 10, 2011
Even with an immense population, the Mankhurd area in Mumbai has only one government school— and that school only goes through Grade 7. The principal of the Deonar Municipal School, the lone government school in Mankhurd, says that if a stude
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