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BOP Job Announcement – WRI and NextBillion
WRI’s Development Through Enterprise team (also known as the NextBillion staff) has an immediate opening for a full-time, paid intern.? This position will be responsible for research and writing assignments documenting the intersection between business and development.? As you know, we...
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News Roundup: Good Capital and The $2000 Car
An assortment of BOP-related news stories came out over the weekend (or over the last week or so).? Some are longer than others - particularly well-written are the two Forbes stories on Good Capital and Tata Motors. First, my friend Kevin Jones was profiled in Forbes late last week.? Kevin,...
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Making the BOP Case at Georgetown, USAID
Yesterday, I had the privilege of introducing our BOP market report, The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid, to nearly 100 people at the US Agency for International Development. The day before, I did the same for a more academic audience at the Mortara...
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Tayo Akinyemi’s BOP 20 Questions
I have to admit, when I first encountered Karnani?s initial critique of BoP, entitled ?Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Mirage? I was beside myself with excitement. Although I had read much of NextBillion?s content with interest and hope, I couldn?t help but wonder, ?Where...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Tayo Akinyemi
The NextBillion.net team is happy to welcome Tayo Akinyemi as our newest Staff Writer.? Tayo is a soon-to-be MBA with domestic and international experience working with nonprofits, for-profit companies, and start ups. She has hands-on knowledge in the areas of direct mail marketing, event...
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The “Other India”
In the context of fast and unequal growth in India’s economy, Outlook magazine released its special issue on its annual State of the Nation survey.Using India?s poorest district - Bolangir (Orissa) - as an example, the issue attempts to document how fast paced growth in an urban economy...
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Design for the Other 90 Percent
Sunday’s New York Times featured an extra-large insert on design.? Most of the articles therein dealt with uber-modern furniture, clothes I would never dream of wearing, chic buildings on the Upper West Side, etc.? Not my speed.As I leafed through it anyway (it was a lazy, rainy Monday...
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Behind the Scenes at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Kevin Jones is a principal with Good Capital. He has extensive entrepreneurial and private investment experience in a range of technology and social enterprises. Kevin has also been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0. He attended this week?s Skoll World Forum on Social...
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