Articles by Rob Katz
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Monday
March 26
2007Guest Blogger: Cracking the Capital Markets for Microfinance
Guest blogger James Dailey worked at Grameen Foundation’s Technology Center for five years and lead the development of the Microfinance Open Source project. He also teaches Microfinance at the University of Washington. He is a founding member and CTO of MicroFinance ClearingHouse. By...
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Thursday
March 22
2007TN4B: World Water Day and the BOP Penalty
Our good friend Chris Monasterski over at the PSD Blog has used data from The Next 4 Billion to describe the market for BOP water on today, World Water Day.? Here’s what he’s got to say: The brand new report The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the...
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Monday
March 19
2007Initial News and Other TN4B Stories
Today’s The Next 4 Billion book launch event at the International Finance Corporation was a success by any measure.? There was a full house to hear C.K. Prahalad, Nariman Behravesh, Michael Klein, and Jonathan Lash.? Books ran out (if you were there and didn’t get a copy, let us...
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Monday
March 19
2007The Next 4 Billion Launching Today
A quick reminder, if you may have forgotten: The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid will be released today at the International Finance Corporation.? C.K. Prahalad, Nariman Behravesh, Jonathan Lash, and Michael Klein will be speaking.? Check my post...
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Wednesday
March 14
2007The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
Discussions of base of the pyramid (BOP) markets have, until now, relied principally on business case studies and rough estimates of market size. On Monday, March 19, WRI and the NextBillion.net team (in conjunction with the IFC) will launch our publication, The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and...
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Monday
March 12
2007BOP Literature Survey – Request for Proposals
"Growing Inclusive Markets” is a new multi-stakeholder initiative, led by the United Nations Development Programme, which strives to identify and examine the vast unmet potential at the base of the world economic pyramid-the population of 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a...
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Monday
March 12
2007BOP Job Announcement – Unitus COO
Unitus, Inc. is a Seattle, WA based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty using a venture capital model. Unitus also has offices in San Francisco and Bangalore, India and relies on innovative financial instruments and the resources of individuals and...
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Friday
March 9
2007Report from Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (2)
Guest blogger Miles Lasater is founder and COO of Higher One which provides financial services to colleges and students.? As creator of the Yale’s annual business plan competition, the Y50k, he was instrumental in ensuring that it has a Social Entrepreneurship category.? He has a hobby as...
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