Articles by Al Hammond
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Wednesday
May 7
2008Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 2: Connecting Rural Communities
This post is the second in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I tell the story of a rural connectivity pilot project; an example of this new model for development in action. A Last Mile...
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Tuesday
May 6
2008Taking Base of the Pyramid Strategies To Scale Pt.1: An Introduction to Transformative Sector Strate
This post is the first of a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I introduce the conceptual framework for this innovative poverty-alleviation model. “It doesn’t exactly keep me up at...
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Monday
May 5
2008Utilities at the Base of the Pyramid
It was sunny, and tempting to sit outside at the University of San Diego to enjoy the weather. Inside, however, a group of global practitioners and scholars - organized by Patricia Marquez of USD and Carlos Rufin of Sussex University and Babson College - were discussing the role of utilities at...
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Wednesday
April 9
2008Making Biofuels Work for the BoP in Haiti
A new paper posted in our resources section gives a specific regional example of the potential benefits of biofuels for the BoP (this adds to our previous discussions on the subject here, here and here). The paper - by Kathleen Robbins of the GreenMicrofinance Group -...
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Thursday
March 6
2008New Report: How to Make Mobile Phone Banking Secure
Mobile phone banking is already fully commercial in the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya. It’s about to happen in perhaps a dozen additional countries. With more than 1.5 billion mobile phones deployed in the developing world, the potential market is large and growing. The need is...
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Thursday
January 24
2008Bill Gates Calls for Capitalism That Serves the Poor
In a speech at Davos today, Bill Gates called for a more inclusive capitalism that “would have a twin mission: making profits and also improving lives for those who don’t fully benefit from market forces.” That is a major milestone in the evolving thinking of perhaps the most...
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Wednesday
January 2
2008Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship
Santa Clara University is known in social entrepreneurial circles for its work helping to organize and judge the Tech Museum Awards ? a showcase for social entrepreneurs, mostly from developing countries. Less well-known about the school is the Global Social Benefit Incubator, run by SCU?s...
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Friday
December 21
2007Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees – On Mobile Banking
I found Peter van Dijk’s comments on Ana’s report from the Mobile Banking Conference interesting but not convincing. Not surprisingly, the evolution of mobile phone banking has not been without false steps, fraudulent operators, and systems that have flaws. But evolution also tends to...
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