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	<title>Microfranchisor</title>
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	<description>Social Innovation.  Business Sustainability.  Self-Reliance Development.</description>
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		<title>MFI Evaluation with Visual Data Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new portion of the microfranchisor website has just been create that features numerous interactive data visualizations of MFI performance data.  Take a look and see for yourself which MFIs around the world are performing the best and doing the most good! 
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		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2010/03/mfi-evaluation-with-visual-data-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Effects of Poverty Visualized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that poverty has horrible consequence for those that are trapped in it; but sometimes it’s hard to really understand the extent of the problem.  Last month Ross Perez, a data analyst from Tableau Software, did some analysis on a set of UNICEF data dealing with child deaths around the world.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2009/12/effects-of-poverty-visualized/</link>
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		<title>Microfranchising&#8217;s Greatest Asset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an article recently published that spoke of how social enterprise can learn from the McDonalds business model.  It was, of course, referring to microfranchising, although it never mentioned the term specifically.
One of the important points of the article was the finding that the franchise model is excellent for expansion purposes because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2009/11/microfranchisings-greatest-asset/</link>
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		<title>Leveraging the Power of Markets with Microfranchising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been growing interest lately in the use of market-based solutions to help alleviate poverty across the globe, especially as a result of the successes of the Acumen Fund. Although these kinds of solutions are no panacea, they have opened many opportunities for poverty relief and economic self reliance development that previous approaches (such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2009/11/leveraging-the-power-of-markets-with-microfranchising/</link>
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		<title>Microfanchising and Economic Self-Reliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where does microfranchising fit in with other methods of poverty alleviation? Stephen W. Gibson, creator of the Academy for Creating Enterprise, has developed the ‘Spectrum of Economic Self-Reliance Development,’ which categorizes and identifies different means of poverty alleviation.  This spectrum helps us answer the above question about microfranchising, and it is from this spectrum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2009/11/microfanchising-and-economic-self-reliance/</link>
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		<title>The Problem Of Poverty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This first series of articles will seek to outline how the unique solution of microfranchising can be applied to eradicate poverty by building business sustainability and economic self-reliance. We will begin examining briefly the problem of poverty that microfranchising seeks to overcome.
The Problem of Poverty
The global problem of poverty is one of such scale and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microfranchisor.org/2009/11/the-problem-of-poverty/</link>
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