Articles by Nitin Rao
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Tuesday
March 25
2008Micro-loans and Macro-expectations
Via NextBillion ally Reuben Abraham, I was pointed to James Surowiecki’s recent article, What Microloans Miss in The New Yorker.Surowiecki points out that while microfinance does a tremendous amount of good, there are also real limits to what it can accomplish. With over $25 billions of...
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Wednesday
March 12
2008Technology Diffusion: A Unique and Unexplored Challenge
Soon after we explored the role of Technology in BoP success, Derek pointed me to an interesting article in The Economist: Technology in emerging economies. The article makes a distinction between technology adoption and technology diffusion -- and argues that emerging economies are better at...
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Tuesday
March 4
2008Technology: A Key to BoP Success?
What do Aravind Eye Care, d.light design, Ekgaon Technologies, ITC’s e-Choupal, and the much awaited Tata Nano have in common? New market segments? Radically new paradigms?Technology?As the BoP discussion moves from whether-to-invest to where-to-invest, there is an increasing need to...
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Monday
March 3
2008Social-Impact Fellowship in Hyderabad
Deadline: April 26, 2008From the Social-Impact website and Via ThinkChange India:Social-Impact is a new international professional development program. Their goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs? projects and/or organizations. Social-Impact?s programme...
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Friday
February 29
2008Job: Vice-President – Sales, India at d.light design
Position: Vice-President, SalesLocation: IndiaOrganization: The goal of d.light design is simple ? to eradicate kerosene lanterns from the face of the earth. To do this it will become the market leader in delivering safe and affordable lighting solutions to over 1.6 billion people who...
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Thursday
February 7
2008Global Action, Local Responsibility: Is Development Through Enterprise a Western-Only Concept?
This year’s topic for the St. Gallen’s Symposium set me thinking...Global Capitalism, Local ValuesThere has been much discussion about Bill Gates’ keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he pushed for “a creative capitalism” that uses market forces to...
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Tuesday
February 5
2008Jobs at Intellecap
Intellecap recently e-mailed us about a couple of interesting job opportunities.About Intellecap:Intellecap is a leading consulting firm focused on capital advisory and innovations for the inclusive finance space, endeavoring to createand deliver mainstream, profitable solutions to address...
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Monday
February 4
2008Engineers for Social Impact
As Moses pointed out last week, a good talent strategy is key to the success of “base of the pyramid"? enterprises.A few months back, I had blogged about my idea to bring top talent into the development sector. We are excited to announce the launch of Engineers for Social Impact - a...
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