Articles by Rob Katz
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Thursday
September 28
2006Mirage at the BOP? Acumen Fund Weighs In
It has been a couple of weeks since Professor Aneel Karnani and Professor C.K. Prahalad debated the best (and worst) ways to serve bottom of the pyramid markets here at NextBillion.net. You may recall that it started when Karnani posted his criticism of Prahalad?s best-selling book;...
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Tuesday
September 26
2006Catalytic Communities – Bottom-up Solutions to Local Problems
Cory?s post about the Tech Museum Awards reminded me to look through the list of this year?s Laureates. Nominees outside the Economic Development category may not necessarily be base of the pyramid focused, but they tend to be really innovative and under-the-radar. As I browsed down...
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Wednesday
September 20
2006World Bank Seminar of Private Sector Development – More of the Same?
UPDATE: Michael Jarvis has posted notes from another meeting, this one called Business Reaching the Poor. Based on his post, it sounds like the second seminar was more focused and less rhetorical than the first (although that’s not saying much.) Thanks to PSD Blogger Michael Jarvis, we...
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Wednesday
September 13
2006Gates, Rockefeller Intend to Re-create Green Revolution for Africa
UPDATE: Peter Timmer of the Center for Global Development is skeptical about the program. The Washington Post reports this morning that the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will partner to jump-start an African Green Revolution: The Africa program will begin with a relatively small Gates...
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Wednesday
September 13
2006Corruption and the Private Sector
This month’s issue of Development Outreach ? a World Bank Institute magazine ? focuses on the private sector’s role in stemming corruption. Articles range from general overviews of related issues to academic discussions of corruption measurement to specific reports from the field,...
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Monday
September 11
2006Inefficiency as Opportunity for the BOP
MIT’s entrepreneurship, innovation, and engineering for the BOP have been on our mind lately. Here’s another shout-out for the Techies. On September 21, the New York MIT Enterprise Forum will host Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World. The event...
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Friday
September 8
2006Lemelson-MIT Awards Sustainable Invention and Innovation
Fans of technical and sustainable innovation, take note - the Lemelson-MIT Awards are coming up again. For those who don?t know, the awards recognize inventors’ impact on economic and social well-being - to the tune of $500,000 (technology), $100,000 (sustainability), or $30,000 (student...
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Wednesday
September 6
2006Ethan Arpi – Our Intern’s Last Stand
As Labor Day came and went in the United States over the weekend, style-conscious clotheshorses put away their whites in favor of browns, greens, and greys; community pools closed their gates; barbeque grills were sheathed for the season. All are signs that summer has come and gone. We at...
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