Articles by John Paul
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Wednesday
September 7
2005Creating Jobs at the BOP
This morning I read an article in the New York Times about a company that is providing English tutoring services to teenagers in California. What’s interesting is that the teachers all live in India, and communicate with their students using the Internet. Growing Stars pays its teachers a...
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Friday
September 2
2005New report highlights private sector role in Millennium Development Goals
WBCSD member companies have a combined annual turnover of more than 5 trillion USD, and their products and services touch the lives of about 2.5 billion people every day. Imagine the possibilities if even a portion of this business energy is harnessed to transform the lives of the world’s...
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Friday
August 26
2005Housing for the Poor – Part II
A month ago, I posted some information about housing technologies for the BOP. This week, a colleague of mine emailed me to tell me about some of her research in the area. One thing her team has discovered is that the choice of technology may not be as important as the choice of business...
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Thursday
August 25
2005From New York to Nairobi, the Parallel Problems of Poor People
In his broad analysis of business and the BOP, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, C.K Prahalad points out that being poor is expensive. With a lack of products and services tailored to fit their needs and incomes, they languish in exploitative informal markets that often prevent them...
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Thursday
August 25
2005New Calendar on Nextbillion.net
We’re pleased to announce that a new Calendar feature was launched today on Nextbillion.net. The Calendar will highlight upcoming BOP-related events, such as WRI’s two regional conferences on private sector-led development, to be held in Brazil and Mexico later this month.As much as...
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Wednesday
August 10
2005Can Public and Private Sectors Work Together for the Poor?
Whilediscussing examples specific to GMOs and other agriculture technology, this paper addresses the broader question: are public-private partnerships (PPPs) simply a new development fad or apromising approach to achieving advances for the poor?Thearticle points out that while...
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Wednesday
July 27
2005Housing for the Poor
A fewinnovative examples of initiatives providing low-cost housing made their wayacross my desk in the last 24 hours, which I took as a sign that I should sharethem with the NB.net community. Somehave been shared before, but are worth mentioning again.The firstis a South African...
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Thursday
July 21
2005Can MNCs succeed at the BOP? Thoughts from the BELL Conference
I’m at the BELL Conference at Cornell University, and just came out of the Sustainable Innovation for Incumbents discussion, which addressed the challenges MNCs face when creating sustainable global enterprises, including those that tackle the BOP market.? The two main obstacles identified...
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