Articles by Ethan Arpi
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Wednesday
August 9
2006Consumer Culture in Latin America
To paraphrase Nestor Canclini, Argentina?s celebrated cultural critic, what happens when an anthropologist reads the Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly, two publications that advocate selling to the poor?? From what I can tell, there are three common reactions.? The first...
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Tuesday
August 8
2006Part II: Rwanda Finds Hope in Coffee
Part I of this series described Rwanda?s burgeoning cooperative movement and its thriving coffee industry, which have combined to alleviate crippling poverty and ethnic tensions in this country. Part II of this series places the current success of Rwanda?s coffee industry in a broader...
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Monday
August 7
2006Part I: Rwanda Finds Hope in Premium Coffee
This Sunday, the New York Times Business section ran a front page article -- Coffee, and Hope, Grow in Rwanda -- on the remarkable story of Gemima Mukashyaka, an orphan of Rwanda?s 1994 genocide, who has returned to her parents former coffee farm and, with the help of USAID and a local...
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Wednesday
August 2
2006Cleaning Up The Streets
?Shit business is serious business,? explains Otunba Gadaffi, founder of DMT, a Nigerian based mobile toilet provider.? And he is right?poor sanitation is a major problem in this burgeoning nation of over 130 million, causing an array of preventable diseases like dysentery and cholera.?...
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Tuesday
August 1
2006In India, Weathermen Are the New Priests
In the United States, faith, along with the rest of American culture, has been industrialized, and is now manufactured and sold in the mega-church, an odd cross between a sports stadium and a big box store. But thankfully, for those of us who can?t find salvation beneath blaring florescent...
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Monday
July 31
2006Craig’s List for Emerging Economies
Emeka Okafor from the blog, Timbuktu Chronicles, recently wrote about an extraordinary service in Bangladesh, which promises to provide significant benefits to the BOP.? GrameenPhone Ltd., Bangledesh?s largest cellular provider, has announced a partnership with MIT-based CellBazaar to...
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Friday
July 28
2006Doing Business in Brazil – It’s Like Waiting in Line at the DMV
If you were given the choice, what would you rather do: (1) Start a business in S?o Paulo, Brazil?s economic capital, or (2) Wait in a thirty day line at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Washington DC? Although number 2 sounds tempting, I would suspect that most everyone would opt to...
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Thursday
July 27
2006It’s Hard Out Here for a Shrimp Boat Captain
What do shrimp fishermen in Louisiana have in common with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso? Both have suffered serious financial setbacks because of American farm subsidies. And with the breakdown of the Doha Round earlier this week, both will continue to suffer well into the foreseeable...
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