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John Paul
World Resources Institute

John is a Research Analyst with Development through Enterprise, a project of WRI’s Sustainable Growth in Emerging Economies objective. His reseach centers on quantifying how businesses can serve basic human needs in low-income communities.

As a developer and moderator of Nextbillion.net, John writes extensively on private sector strategies for poverty alleviation. He also consults for USAID’s Last Mile Initiative, and has spent a year living in India working for n-Logue Communications, an IIT-incubated business that is setting up wirelessly connected franchised Internet kiosks throughout the country.

John graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy.

Articles by John Paul

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    Announcement: WBCSD online discussion on ’The business of development’ (13-31 October 2005)

    The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is hosting a new online discussion on ’The business of development.’ The forum follows in the footsteps of this spring?s online discussion ?Business & Development - What is the right approach?? and will give stakeholders a...

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    Google Foundation invests in BOP

    Google has announced the creation of a foundation with the explicit goal of ?giving on world poverty and the environment, an unusual move in the world of corporate philanthropy, which usually picks safer causes such as education.? One of the most interesting aspects of the fund is that...

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    New Resources on Nextbillion.net

    NextBillion.net is pleased to announce the creation of a new Resources section of the site. Content is organized into five categories:* Featured Content: Research and interviews produced exclusively by the Development Through Enterprise team.* Case Studies: More than 3 dozen case...

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    New Shell Foundation Report: Aid Reform and the Role of Enterprise

    Earlier this year, the Shell Foundation released a report - Enterprise Solutions to Poverty - arguing that enterprise and business thinking must be placed at the heart of the war on poverty if we are really going to “Make Poverty History". Backing its words up, the Foundation has...

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    Cheap, but are they marketable?

    Two articles about low-cost cell phones were posted to the Newsroom this week. The first talks about plans by the GSM Association’s Emerging Market Handset Program to purchase 6 million of Motorola’s new phones, expected to wholesale below $30. The article mentions several other chip and...

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    Sachet Marketing – the Best Strategy?

    Trendwatching.com recently posted a good piece on Sachet Marketing, a BOP strategy already being used successfully to sell a variety of consumer products ranging from soap to cell phone minutes. The approach involves serving up products, services and loans in affordable portions, sachets or...

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    MNC.org – Meet NGO Inc

    All Paths Lead to the BOP, by Jeb Brugmann originally appeared in the September issue of Alliance Magazine.While the media and public discourse has been accentuating the divide between the private sector and civil society, the trend in practice has been towards convergence. NGOs and...

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    BOP Database Launched

    The Nextbillion.net Team is pleased to announce the launch of our new BOP Activity Database. The Database tracks innovative enterprises that offer products and services to underserved communities in developing countries, and is searchable either by keyword or through a variety of pre-defined...

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