Articles by Derek Newberry
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Tuesday
May 6
2008Job: Senior Researcher, Institute for Financial Management and Research
Position: Senior Researcher, BoP Energy Sector Analysis, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)Location: Chennai, IndiaOrganization: The Centre for Development Finance of the IFMR is a development economics research and action centre. It was formally established in...
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Thursday
May 1
2008Event: Small Business Finance – What Works, What Doesn’t?
The debate around SME finance is rapidly maturing. Development professionals and socially-minded investors are well aware of the difficulty entrepreneurs in emerging economies have in securing capital larger than microloans. A World Bank conference to be held next Monday and Tuesday in...
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Wednesday
April 30
2008MNC to BoP: How Entrepreneurs Make The Link
We blog frequently on this site about the importance of large multi-nationals finding ways to tap into BoP markets. This often comes in the form of discussions on reaching the BoP directly as consumers (ie projects like the OLPC or microcredit initiatives). But what about small and medium...
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Thursday
April 24
2008Big Award for the KickStart CEO
So it seems KickStart has something else going for it, as if a viral video featuring Maasai rapper Mr. Ebbo weren’t enough... The CEO of the San Francisco-based social enterprise, Martin Fisher, won the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability this week for his innovative and affordable...
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Wednesday
April 23
2008SMEs Are What’s Next
"What poor countries need most is not more microbusinesses. They need more small-to-medium-sized enterprises, the kind that are bigger than a fruit stand but smaller than a Fortune 1000 corporation.” These were the words of James Surowiecki last month in his New Yorker piece What...
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Monday
April 14
2008NYT Magazine Asks: Can Cellphones Alleviate Poverty?
All of us at NextBillion.net were both humbled and thrilled to see the New York Times Sunday Magazine draw on our work - and the work of many colleagues - to write an extended piece on the impact of cell phone usage in emerging economies. Sara Corbett’s article follows Nokia researcher...
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Friday
April 11
2008BiD “Entrepreneurship in Development” Photo Contest
BiD Network is announcing a “one time only” Photo Contest. The contest will gather photos from around the world on the theme of “Entrepreneurship for Development". The Competition: In this Photo Contest, BiD is focusing on entrepreneurs around the world who are working...
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Thursday
April 10
2008Job: Unitus Equity Fund, Senior Associate
Unitus Equity Fund is currently seeking applicants for the position of Senior Associate.Location: Bangalore, India Organization: The Unitus Equity Fund is a leading global private equity fund established in 2006 with a focus on microfinance institutions (MFIs). We provide equity capital...
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