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A Call to Journalists: Stop Writing about Microfinance
Everyone agrees that microfinance is the coolest thing since sliced bread.? That?s why in the last two months we?ve seen it covered by the Financial Times, Reuters, The Globalist, The New York Times, The Economist, The LA Times, Business Week, CNN, and The Times of London.? And in all...
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Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise
What do you get when you mix SimCity with social entrepreneurship? Village, a multiplayer strategy game that puts the BOP hypothesis to work. According to the game?s web site, Village?s mission is...to let players practice building sustainable villages for developing nations using...
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Selling to the Poor
Today, the Financial Times covers Casas Bahia, a BOP favorite from Brazil which has also been discussed in CK Prahalad?s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.? Although the FT adds little to the debate about extending credit to low-income consumers, it still provides important...
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Minipreneurs: Do BOP Entrepreneurs Deserve the Hype?
The entrepreneurial bandwagon is starting to feel a little full. Everyone from development experts to market research firms seems to be falling over themselves to hail the resourceful small-scale entrepreneur as a savior of poor communities everywhere. Even the uber-hip Trendwatching web site...
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Guest Post: Community Based Enterprise Development
This post was written by Vincent Ricasio, a retired investment banker currently working on microfranchising and other community development strategies at New York University. Contact Vincent using the comment field below to discuss his Community Based Enterprise Development concept. Is it...
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Enterprises on the Move
If I?m not scouring obscure newspapers for BOP related stories, staring aimlessly off into space, clipping my toe nails, or thinking about integrating a word like phallogocentrism into a blog about microfinance, then chances are I?m adding new activities to Nextbillion?s activity...
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India’s Amul Dairy Cooperative
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Times reported that over 100,000 cooperatives have been formed in Venezuela in the last year, forming ?the centerpiece of President Hugo Chavez’s new socialist model to create jobs and redistribute this oil-rich country’s wealth.? By providing tax...
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Rising Ventures: Linax As the Anti-Body Shop
Continuing discussions of “eco-chic,” I’m turning this week to another Brazilian company, Linax, that works with perfume and oil ingredients. Of course the concept of sustainable cosmetics is hardly original, but the sector deserves a little good news after having been ravaged by...
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