Articles by Manuel Bueno
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Monday
June 9
2008Food Price Inflation and the BoP
Most of NextBillion’s visitors have heard about the current jump in food prices. These higher prices have already triggered responses locally in the form of riots in countries such as Haiti, Egypt and Bangladesh. The OECD and FAO have recently issued a report predicting that food prices...
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Wednesday
May 28
2008World Business and Development Awards Launched
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) have opened nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards...
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Tuesday
May 20
2008New CGAP Study: Known Knowns And Known Unknowns About Branchless Banking
This weekend I had the chance to read CGAP?s new report about branchless banking. The report is a short summary about the current state of the branchless banking market. To those readers who do not know anything of the market it is an easy introduction. To those readers who have been...
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Tuesday
May 13
2008Base of the Pyramid Market Building in Disaster Areas
We live in a world obsessed with growth. According to the National Bureau of Economic of Research (NBER), there have been only four recessions in the US since 1980. Between March 1991 and March 2001, the US experienced the longest economic expansion in its history. It comes, therefore, as no...
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Monday
April 7
2008Interview with CGAP’s Mark Pickens: Branchless Banking Sector “Exploding” (Part 2)
Mark Pickens is a Microfinance Analyst with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global resource center for microfinance housed at the World Bank. We published the first part of the interview here on April 4th. CGAP are arguably the most authoritative source of information about...
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Friday
April 4
2008Interview with CGAP’s Mark Pickens: Branchless Banking Sector “Exploding”
Mark Pickens is a Microfinance Analyst with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global resource center for microfinance housed at the World Bank. We have quoted CGAP on NextBillion in several posts (see them here, here and here). They are arguably the most authoritative source ...
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Sunday
March 9
2008New Study Details Problems and Prospects for Mobile Phone Banking
By all measures, this has been a pretty long post to finalize.In January, Ana?s post about the mobile phone banking conference at Chemonics aroused a series of insightful comments. Al Hammond then weighed in with a post of his own (he also recently wrote about Biometric Security for Mobile...
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Sunday
March 2
2008?How to do Business at the BoP? – Conference Wrap-Up
As Robert Katz posted last week, a BoP Conference entitled ?How to do Business at the BoP? was held on February the 27th in Madrid. The conference had pretty impressive speakers and visitors, since it was mainly directed at the corporate world. Robert was the first speaker of the day. He...
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