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Courtland Walker
World Resources Institute

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    TN4B: Focus on Energy

    What follows below is an excerpt from the Energy Chapter of the The Next 4 Billion report. The chapter contains two country specific case studies. The study below, on India, provides a comprehensive preview of much of the data and analysis available in the energy chapter. India’s energy...

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    Good News for a Change

    My one-line review of Fast Company’s March issue and its annual Fast 50 list: “It’s exciting.” It’s green, it’s sustainable, and it has BOP written all over it, both literally and sequentially (from the Letter from the Editor, to Andrew Zolli’s Business 3.0, to...

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    Rwanda Journal: Funds for East Africa’s SMEs

    Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series. This is the third post in the series; read the first two here and here.In high-income...

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    Rwanda Journal: Dear Dave,

    Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series.? This is the second post in the series; read the first here. In reference to David’s...

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    Rwanda Journal: Vision 2020

    Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series. The most recurrent thought during my time in Rwanda was, “What?s the first...

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    LifeStraw Catching On

    With more than a few mentions on NextBillion during its development, it was nice to see LifeStraw covered in today’s New York Times.The LifeStraw sells for $3, is approximately the size of a paper towel tube (i.e. 25cm long by 29mm in diameter), and filters out 99.99% of bacteria, the...

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    2006 Tech Museum Award Laureates

    The Laureates for the 2006 Tech Museum Awards were recently announced. The Tech Museum Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.While this awards program is more about recognition than about...

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    On India’s Farms, a Plague of Suicide

    There is a poignant article in today’s New York Times on the alarming rate of suicides amongst India’s farmers - more than 17,000 in 2003. Tracing the causes of this epidemic, the article explores a confluence of forces from moneylenders to American multinationals selling genetically...

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