Articles by John Paul
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Friday
December 9
2005Case Study Released – Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development
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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Thursday
December 8
2005Harvard’s Global Poverty Conference – Abstracts Posted
Last week, Harvard Business School brought together committed scholars and corporate, non-profit and government leaders to discuss the role of business in poverty alleviation. The 3-day conference, Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches, featured case studies on and empirical...
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Monday
December 5
2005Using mobile technology to fight poverty
The latest issue of Developments, the international development magazine published by DFID, features two good stories about how mobile technology is reducing poverty throughout the developing world. The first points to a new study by the London Business School that researched the effects of...
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Thursday
December 1
2005Reality check for the $100 laptop
Among the never-ending stream of news stories hyping the One Laptop Per Child project, there finally seems to be a few that strike a healthy note of caution. Both Slate and CNN ran articles this week that ask some very legitimate questions:- “If you’re willing to assume that MIT can...
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Wednesday
November 23
2005Report: Private Sector Strategies for Providing Healthcare at the Base of the Pyramid
The role of the private sector in improving the delivery of healthcare in developing countries is still being debated. Although private sector strategies may improve efficiencies and lower costs, some fear that turning healthcare entirely into a consumer service will marginalize the poor even...
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Thursday
November 17
2005Healthcare Delivery: World Class Services
This is the final post in my series on financially sustainable models that provide high quality healthcare to the poor. A compilation of all posts will be available to download as a PDF next week.Healthcare for the poor is typically regarded as substandard, and it sometimes is. But a...
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Sunday
November 13
2005Healthcare Delivery: Insurance and Finance
This post is part of my continuing series about financially sustainable models that provide healthcare to the poor.In developing countries, there is a strong correlation between access to finance and access to healthcare. Getting the poor to bank, and bank profitably, could push rural...
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Thursday
November 10
2005Microfinance Sells Out? and Investors are Buying!
Has microfinance finally gone mainstream? The fact that the Economist devoted 10-pages to a survey of the industry this month convinces me that maybe it has. Through seven different pieces, the magazine provides both a good history of efforts made over the past three decades to bank the...
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