Articles by Derek Newberry
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Thursday
April 10
2008Where Microfinance and Climate Change Meet
The World Bank recently released the April edition of Development Outreach, which happily addresses head-on the connections between development and climate change. I was pleased to see articles on topics as diverse as development for climate change adaptation and environmental considerations...
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Tuesday
April 8
2008Links Roundup: BP, Branding, and Miscellany
Some links for you to kick the post-lunch work slump: BP innovates for the BoP Via Perspective 2.0, an article on Oorja - a BP stove that runs on biomass pellets instead of wood, which is a more common fuel source for cookstoves in rural India... sounds very much like that of an SME in...
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Thursday
April 3
2008BoP = 1; SME = Global
"N=1, R=G” is purportedly the equation that summarizes C.K. Prahalad’s new contribution to business management literature. I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, but there are good synopses online already, such as this one - all of which report that the new book by C.K....
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Friday
March 28
2008Guest Post: Gender and Sustainable Energy at WIREC 2008
Saurabh Lall is a Research Assistant with the New Ventures project.A quick Friday point of interest from the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference that took place at the Convention Center here in DC earlier this month. The WIREC tradeshow showcased the latest developments in...
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Thursday
March 27
2008Guest Post: The Dilemmas of Scaling BoP Ventures
Guest blogger Apoorva Shah, a recent graduate of Rice University, is currently a Wagoner Scholar working with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public to research the influence of social entrepreneurship on public policy. Currently in S?o Paulo, Brazil, he wrote this post from Colombo, Sri Lanka. ...
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Tuesday
March 11
2008Ethics in the BoP Marketplace
I ran across this Fair and Lovely ad on YouTube recently. For those who don’t know, this product is a skin-lightening cream that was at the center of a debate last year over the value and impact of a BoP approach to poverty alleviation. The ad is in Hindi, but the message is clear:...
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Wednesday
March 5
2008Introducing Staff Writer Francisco Noguera
The New Ventures team is proud to welcome Francisco Noguera on board as the latest addition to our pool of talented NextBillion.net Staff Writers. Francisco, a native of Colombia comes to NextBillion.net with a deep understanding of issues around implementation of BoP initiatives. In...
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Wednesday
March 5
2008Mapping Clean Energy Opportunities for the BoP
So what does it take to supply millions of households in emerging economies with clean renewable energy? We often talk about finance, new models, willing entrepreneurs. Kenneth Westrick, CEO of energy consulting group 3Tier says it’s information.Really? Hard to believe this at a time...
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