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Hammond vs. Karnani: Debating “Romanticizing the Poor” Part 1
Editor’s note: In December, Professor Aneel Karnani published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? At the time, we posted about it here on NextBillion.net and suggested that our review of the article would be forthcoming; it has...
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Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
Last month, Aneel Karnani wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review an article entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? In it, he states, "...romanticized views of BoP people as value-conscious consumers and resilient entrepreneurs are not only false, but also harmful." I think a lot of what Karnani says in the article is true ...
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Microfinance Reaches More Than 100 Million Poor as Clouds Gather in the Horizon
When Muhammad Yunus, Ingrid Munro and other microfinance pioneers, got together in the first Microfinance Summit in 1997, they adopted what for many was an impossible goal: to reach 100 million people living with less than $1 per day by 2005.? Although the deadline was missed, the 100m mark was reached in 2007, an incredible feat nonetheless.
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D.light Looking for Talented Fellows
D.Light, the renewable energy organization that distributes clean sources of light in the developing world, is looking for its first class of Fellows.D.Light, which has often been mentioned on NextBillion, is an incredible start-up that was founded by savvy Stanford MBA graduates Sam Goldman...
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President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid: Part 2
There has been a lot of buzz about new models of foreign aid and the role of social entrepreneurs since our post on President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid. Guest blogger Apoorva Shah also shared some great points about the important actors in aid reform,...
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Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare
Editor’s note: Al Hammond, entrepreneur in residence at Ashoka, will write a series of reports documenting his experiences and the learning involved in started a "base of the pyramid"; (BoP) healthcare venture to serve developing countries. This is his first report in the...
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Connecting Dots …
Last Friday Rob wrote news about new Base of the Pyramid conversations taking place, this time in Davos. Great news indeed. For those who can attend, venues like that of Davos (or the one starting tomorrow in Long Beach) are the time of the year when they allow their brains get picked by new...
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Guest Post: Aid and Foreign Assistance Reform in the Obama Administration
The American Enterprise Institute?recently convened a two-day symposium on the future of U.S. development policy and foreign assistance. The nexus between development and enterprise was a recurring theme at the event, and participants discussed how entrepreneurial philanthropy, social...
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