Articles by Nitin Rao
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Tuesday
June 26
2007Not Another Cure-All Pill for Poverty
Josh Weissburg, a Project Associate at The Aspen Institute has shared his perspective on Prof. Aneel Karnani?s SSIR article ?Microcredit Misses Its Mark". He argues that the poor need options, not...
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Friday
June 22
2007Small Car Activity
There has been considerable enthusiasm - including on Nextbillion.net - about Tata’s much hyped Rs. 100,000 car. Nextbillion post - India’s Model T: Tata’s $2000 car out by 2008 - has been on the Most Popular list of posts for as long as I can remember! While some are...
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Monday
June 11
2007Indian Education: Missing Markets, New Opportunities
The role of the private sector in promoting education is a topic of considerable interest and discussion. Atanu Dey’s series of blog posts on The Indian Education System make for good reading.An extract:"Imagine for a bit what it would be like if education were provided by private...
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Wednesday
May 16
2007Microfinance Action
A wrap of the recent spate of announcements in the microfinance space shows some interesting trends:Investments are coming from across the world and are of significantly larger scale.Dubai-based privately-owned finance firm Legatum Capital, run by one of New Zealand?s richest men -...
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Tuesday
May 15
2007Inclusion for Market Growth
Arun Maira (right), Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India, has written an excellent editorial in India?s prominent business daily, The Economic Times.In his view, Inclusion is the mantra for growth in bottom of the pyramid markets.Maira writes:Down-sizing products and services...
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Tuesday
May 8
2007Can India Afford Its Villages?
Atanu Dey, chief economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai and author of the Rural Infrastructure Services Commons (RISC) model and Reuben Abraham (right), director of the Cornell/ ISB Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab at the Indian School of Business make a case for developing urban strongholds...
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Friday
April 27
2007Roadblocks to Financial Inclusion
When I recently attended The Second Annual Conference on Public Policy and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, I had not imagined that it will be difficult to summarize it in a blog post. Discussed at the conference - current thinking on the proposed National Rural...
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Thursday
April 19
2007The Spark Group: Igniting Possibilities
I came across, by chance, what promises to be a very interesting venture.A group of Indian youngsters are launching a social venture called The Spark Group. They have been educated at Ivy League universities such as MIT Sloan and Yale. Ayan Sarkar and Priya Naik - two of the founders - have...
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