Articles by John Paul
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Monday
January 30
2006One Cellphone per Child?
The New York Times posted an interesting article today talking about the politics of open-source software, and its consequences to the much vaunted One Laptop Per Child program. According to the article, Dr. Negroponte?s decision to furnish his program?s inexpensive laptops with...
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Monday
January 30
2006IFC Sees Greater Role in BOP Investment & Development
The International Finance Corporation turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, the group released an article that talks about the IFC?s investments ? past, present, and future. Its prognosis for 2006? Emerging markets are headed for a banner year. Lars Thunell, executive vice...
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Tuesday
January 10
2006Microfinance and MicroFranchises: A Perfect Marriage?
Microfinance: Very small loans provided to the poor to provide capital for starting a very small business.MicroFranchise: A small business that can easily be replicated by following proven mentoring, marketing, and operational concepts found in formal franchises.Put them together, and...
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Thursday
January 5
2006Creating a World Development Corporation
Since the anti-globalization movement burst into the mainstream during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, multinational corporations (MNCs) have come under increasing scrutiny for their business practices in developing countries. The debate has often centered on whether MNCs and...
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Friday
December 23
2005The ?Year of Microcredit?: A Retrospective
2005 was designated as the ?Year of Microcredit? by the United Nations, a title meant to raise awareness of the need to build inclusive financial sectors and strengthen the powerful, but often untapped, entrepreneurial spirit existing in communities around the world. Microfinance is...
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Wednesday
December 21
2005Updates to Harvard Global Poverty Conference page
We’ve updated the Harvard Global Poverty Conference page on Nextbillion.net with almost two dozen PowerPoint presentations. The 3-day conference featured case studies on and empirical research of successful business models, the role of civil society and government, and the ethical and...
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Monday
December 19
2005The Honey Bee Network: A Reintroduction
If necessity is the mother of all invention, then people living at the base of the pyramid should have plenty of marketable ideas. Anil Gupta, executive chairperson of the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) and the founder of the Honey Bee Network thinks so. For 16 years, he’s been...
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Wednesday
December 14
2005Interview with Thamel.com
WRI’s latest What Works case study, Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development, is now available through the NextBillion.net Case Studies page. The report documents a Nepal-based marketing and development company that has tapped the resources of the diaspora to create new opportunities for...
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