Articles by Martin Herrndorf
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Monday
September 27
2010Guest Post: Research on Inclusive Markets – Anyone Up for Academic Leapfrogging?
Poverty has long been a blind spot in management research. Even research on emerging economies like China, India or Brazil - that house a significant share of the world’s poor - has evaded the topic. Recent publications on business and poverty could change this - and provide a roadmap for researchers attempting to bring more rigor to the field.
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Tuesday
June 15
2010The Ugly Duckling Turned Rich ? Leapfrog?s Approach to Microinsurance
Microinsurance- the provision of insurance to the poor -has been overlooked due to the wide-spread focus on microcredit, but this might just be changing. Leapfrog, the first dedicated microinsurance investment fund, has raised USD137 million to be invested in microinsurance projects around the world. An interview with director Jim Roth follows.
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Thursday
April 29
2010Going Native? oikos UNDP Young Scholars Academy 2010, in Costa Rica
Addressing "Inclusive Partnerships for Sustainable Market Innovations", the oikos UNDP Young Scholars Academy moves its location this year to Costa Rica, from August 29 to September 3rd.
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Monday
December 21
2009Mastering the Inclusive Markets Research Challenge
Fifteen PhD students and recent graduates that target the "next billion" as a research challenge gathered for the one-week oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2009 in Kaubad, Switzerland from the 6th to the 11th of December, 2009. They were brought together by the oikos Foundation and UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets.
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Tuesday
July 7
2009Advancing Young Research on the “Next Billion”
What are the hot academic debates on how to reach out the Base of the Pyramid and "grow inclusive markets?? How can young researchers, in their PhD or early faculty life, use innovative research tools to crack these nuts? And how can they make their insights relevant for practitioners?
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