Articles by Rob Katz
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Monday
January 22
2007Prodem Sold to Venezuela Under a Cloud of Intrigue, Irony
Prodem, the 3rd largest microbank in Bolivia and a long-time BOP success story known for its home-grown smart ATMs, now finds itself at the center of a political-economic power struggle between Bolivia and Venezuela.? Yes, the socialist/populist governments of Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez are...
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Friday
January 19
2007Weekend Reading: M-Banking, Remittances, Philanthropreneurs
Update: I just saw this week’s edition of BusinessWeek, where the cover story is entitled? Beyond The Green Corporation.? Worth reading, although I’ll warn you not to expect anything earth-shattering.? It’s also worth taking a look at some of the associated articles...enjoy.With...
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Thursday
January 18
2007International Private Enterprise Group – DC – January Meeting
Remember IPEG (International Private Enterprise Group)? We’ve written about it in the past, and have mentioned the nascent DC chapter as well. A quick reminder: the group aims to create an opportunity for professionals interested in the intersection between business and development to...
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Thursday
January 11
2007Global Philanthropy Forum 2007 – Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship
Momentum continues to build for business’ role in development.? The venerable Global Philanthropy Forum will hold its annual, invitation-only conference from April 11 to 13 of this year.? The conference’s title?? Financing Social Change: Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship.?...
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Tuesday
January 9
2007Book and Blog Reviews – To Read and Not To Read
For many suburbanites, success is sometimes measured by one’s ability to keep up with the Joneses.? For me, the clich? changes only slightly ? to keeping up with the Christines.? My friend and colleague Christine Bowers of the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog has an...
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Monday
January 8
2007BOP Strategy in Action – Lessons from Hutchinson-Essar
An article in last Friday?s International Herald Tribune details the business strategy behind frenzied takeover bids for Indian mobile phone company Hutchinson-Essar by Vodafone, Reliance, Essar, and others.? Further into the article, writer Anand Giridharadas describes the BOP strategies of...
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Friday
January 5
2007The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of MIT?s Poverty Action Lab, published a working paper back in October 2006 called The Economic Lives of the Poor. I am not usually one to urge an economics paper on anyone, but I will break from tradition here. Print this paper, take it home this...
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Thursday
January 4
2007New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Lauren Abendschein
The Development Through Enterprise and NextBillion.net team is happy to welcome Lauren Abendschein to WRI.? Lauren will be working with us for 5 weeks - the length of Oberlin College’s winter term.? She will graduate from Oberlin with a B.Mus. this spring and finish up her B.A. in...
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