Articles by John Paul
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Thursday
November 10
2005Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Protection – Part II
As I discussed in Tuesday?s post, there are an increasing number of businesses producing health-improving consumer products that are affordable to customers at the base of the pyramid. Today, I will highlight a few more examples, including specialized food items meant to improve nutrition,...
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Tuesday
November 8
2005Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Prevention ? Part I
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The old adage is particularly applicable to healthcare in developing countries, where millions of people die or get sick each year from illnesses that are easily preventable. The financial costs of these illnesses far outweigh the minimal...
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Monday
November 7
2005Healthcare Delivery: Franchised Solutions
Despite their best efforts, government and NGO programs have generally failed to achieve the scale and sustainability necessary to provide adequate and affordable healthcare to many living below the poverty line. But as the Time Global Health Summit illustrated, the role of the private sector...
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Thursday
November 3
2005New Feature on NB.net: Regionalized News
The Newsroom has been regionalized, allowing you to easily view the latest BOP news from a specific part of the world. Regional RSS feeds are now available as well.The regions, defined on the map below, include: Latin America, North Africa & the Near East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe...
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Tuesday
November 1
2005A Shell Foundation interview with development expert William Easterly
This interview originally appeared in the Shell Foundation’s October Newsletter.The Shell Foundationhas conducted an enlightening interview with former World Bankeconomist and respected academic William Easterly. As the author of abestselling book and numerous articles about the...
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Thursday
October 27
2005Taking the Internet to the People
Of all the hi-tech products and services that have been made available to the BOP, perhaps none has received as much attention as digital connectivity. And with good reason ? information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been used in a wide variety of ways to create social and...
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Monday
October 24
2005The Collaboration Challenge
Rama Bijapurkar of the Times News Network just wrote an interesting piece on what may be the most difficult aspect of successfully engaging the market at the BOP ? the creation and maintenance of cross-sector partnerships. He writes:"One of the key ideas of the book (Fortune at...
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Wednesday
October 19
2005More Innovations at the Edge
Al Hammond recently finished posting his series on ?Technology Innovations at the Edge.? The full series is now available as a downloadable PDF file here. One of the premises of the report is that technologies created for developed countries may actually be more useful and...
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