Articles by Ana Escalante
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Wednesday
September 19
2007Paul Collier’s Bottom Billion Book Discussion
Georgetown University’s Mortara Center for International Studies is hosting a book discussion next week on “The Bottom Billion- Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.” The author of the book, Paul Collier will be at the discussion....
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Tuesday
September 18
2007What does the Future Hold for Rural Chinese Borrowers?
"In China, people try not to think about the countryside at all. When they do, it is not of a rural idyll, but a grim, dirty place where people are poor and life is harsh. In Britain the countryside is somewhere to escape to. In China it is somewhere to escape from.” I read these...
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Monday
September 17
2007Update: CatComm’s Community Solutions Competition Extended Deadline for Submission
I wanted to re-post this announcement since the deadline has been extended to September 28, 2007Catalytic Communities has launched a competition in which participants will help identify creative, community-based solutions to challenges in Education & Skill-building, and Business &...
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Monday
September 17
2007Social Marketing in the Developing World: What Have we Accomplished and What Does the Future Hold?
Private Sector Partnerships for Better Health (PSP-One) along with USAID are seeking for submission of abstracts for the upcoming 2008 On-line Social Marketing Conference. The deadline is September 30!There are nine different topics to choose from. “The topics can be addressed...
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Thursday
September 13
2007Fall 2007 Issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review is Out
The latest issue of one of my favorite journals - Stanford Social Innovation Review - is out; they only have 4 issues a year, so I get really excited when the new issue comes out. There are a couple of interesting articles in the Fall 2007 issue addressing both the non-profit and the for-profit...
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Wednesday
September 12
2007’Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid’ Convention in India
The Madras Management Association will be organizing the sixth All-India Management Students’ Convention in Chennai, India on September 21 and 22. The convention will focus on Strategies for the BOP. There will be three business sessions in this convention. The first session will focus...
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Monday
September 10
2007Job: Unitus
For anyone interested in working with BOP issues, I came across this job posting this morning: Unitus, a social enterprise based in Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, is a worldwide leader at scaling proven solutions to global poverty. Unitus accelerates access to...
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Friday
September 7
2007Lighting Africa: It’s Time for the ’Dark Continent’ to Begin to Shine!
"The sun has set in one of the world’s poorest nations and as the floodlights come on at G’bessi International Airport, the parking lot begins filling with children.” I read this in the news article “Kids in Guinea Study Under Airport Lamps” earlier this summer. ...
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