Articles by Ethan Arpi
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Monday
July 24
2006That Catfish Sure Tastes Good
This Saturday the New York Times jumped on the biodiesel bandwagon, publishing this article on Jim Nornman and his experience driving a car powered by vegetable oil.? Here at Nextbillion, we have covered biodiesel and its use in the developing world on two separate occasions?in Rwanda?s...
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Friday
July 21
2006’Globalization Comes Full Circle’ – Business Week
In this week?s cover story, Emerging Giants, Business Week explores the phenomenon of ?innovation blowback.? For those of you not familiar with the term?like me only 15 minutes ago?innovation blowback refers to businesses from the developing world that expand into overseas markets...
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Thursday
July 20
2006How the Other Half Lives
In the late 1800?s, Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant in the United States, set out to document New York City?s teeming tenements on the Lower East Side.? His finished product, How the Other Half Lives, was an immediate success and is now recognized as a canonical work of American...
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Tuesday
July 18
2006In China, The Sun Also Rises
In Ecclesiastes, the son of David describes the resilience of earth and the futility of human action, explaining that, ?One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.? In the last two decades, ever since China began liberalizing its economy, a new...
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Monday
July 17
2006Low-Wage Jobs Alleviate Poverty
In this Sunday?s Business section of the New York Times, Daniel Gross from Slate Magazine writes about the latest trend in international development: the $2 a day job. He begins his article discussing A to Z Manufacturing, a mosquito bed-netting business from Tanzania that pays its 2,000...
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Friday
July 14
2006Casas Bahia’s Latest Deal: The $3600 Plasma TV
On this blog, Casas Bahias, Brazil?s largest retailer, which has garnered its financial success by extending affordable credit to low income consumers, has been championed as a successful BOP business model. Strictly in terms of the bottom line, I agree. However, there is reason to believe...
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Friday
July 14
2006A Watch That Detects Malaria
In a New York Times article published in June, Business Joins African Effort to Cut Malaria, Sharon LaFraniere writes about the international mining company Billiton and its six year effort fighting malaria in Mozambique.? When more than one third of its staff fell ill with malaria and the...
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Thursday
July 13
2006Banking on Wal-Mart
In one of his most famous and eloquent passages, Karl Marx expresses awe at the transformative power of capitalism, writing that, ?All that is solid melts into air, all that is sacred is profaned.?? In the last two decades, Wal-Mart, the embodiment of global capital, has almost single...
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