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Reflections on Acumen Fund’s Investor Gathering
Like the year before, it was cold, it was early and it was at the Rubin Museum of Art. But that?s where the 2008 Acumen Fund Investor Gathering ceased to be like the 2007 version, at least on the surface. On a personal, micro level, there were obvious differences: last year, I attended...
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American Thanksgiving Break – Back Next Week
For those of us in the United States, tonight marks a tradition - the tradition of Thanksgiving traffic.? This is especially true on the eastern seaboard, where air and car traffic get particularly bad as families attempt to gather and celebrate the holiday. So, since NextBillion.net is based...
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Crowdsourcing Mobile Tech for Development: $10K Up for Grabs
Interested in mobile technology applications for development?? Need $10,000?? If you answered “yes” to both of the above, then the Development 2.0 Challenge is made for you. The Development 2.0 Challenge is an initiative of the Global Development Commons, which works to...
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Net Impact: Business Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
Guest blogger Bree Olivari is a second-year MBA candidate at Thunderbird Global School of Management and is a leader of the Net Impact chapter.?At Thunderbird, Bree integrates her interest in sustainable business with her degree in supply chain leadership. Her projects include mapping best...
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Forthcoming CGAP Conference about Mobile Phone Banking: December 11th
For all our readers who have been following the mobile phone banking debate, there is a great opportunity coming up to hear about first hand experiences of the implementation of? mobile banking solutions at scale in multiple markets. CGAP - the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor - is...
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What is the BoP Sector Doing to Improve Gender Equality?
Although gender equality is a desirable aim in itself, there are also underlying economic reasons for female empowerment. In the words of the 2007 Global Monitoring Report (partially devoted to gender issues) from the World Bank: “Improving gender equality reduces poverty and stimulates...
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Net Impact: Social Entrepreneurship at Work
Guest blogger Katherine Yue is a second-year MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management where she has assisted in research on business and capacity growth in microfinance and health microfranchises. She interned for FINCA Jordan in its founding year, strengthening business risk...
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World Challenge ’08: Deadline for Voting is Tomorrow, 11/21
Back in April I posted news about the World Challenge competition, hosted by BBC and Newsweek. Well, I just got an e-mail from a friend reminding?me about it so I went to the competition’s?website, only to find out that the final round is on and that votes for one of the...
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