Articles by Rob Katz
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Thursday
October 27
2005PBS releases new microfinance documentary TONIGHT
Tonight, many PBS affiliates will feature the premiere of Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty, an hour-long documentary exploring issues of poverty and microcredit. The program?s web site includes an easy-to-use station finder that allows viewers to find out when it will...
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Tuesday
October 25
2005“Sad study” highlights aid’s ineffectiveness
What is the impact of development aid on economic growth?This critical question has been the topic of debate among development experts, economists, policymakers, civil society, and business ? especially here on NextBillion.net. Some answers may be emerging, and they point out that...
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Thursday
October 20
2005At Home and “Kozi” in a Dome
In August, mainstream media attention focused on the plightof thousands of Americans living in domes - most notably New Orleans’ Superdomeand the Houston Astrodome - after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. For those looking to read a vastly more positivestory about...
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Tuesday
October 18
2005How to leapfrog? Look to the black market
Regular NextBillion readers won’t be shocked by a recent AP news article about cell phone use in Africa. It’s even been noted as a “worldchanging” leapfrog technology - and rightly so. However, this article sticks out from the rest when it analyzes why cell phones came from nowhere...
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Friday
September 30
2005Taxes and the Digital Divide – Serious Problems
As an economist and self-styled BOP researcher, I’ve always been interested in the effect of technology on efficiency, price competition, and cost-of-living at the BOP. WRI, through its now-sunset Digital Dividend project, studied the effect of technology on low-income communities for years,...
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Tuesday
September 27
2005The Myth of CSR
A controversial title, to be sure. The Myth of CSR (PDF), published in thismonth’s issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, identifies a keytruth about corporate social responsibility while failing to take the next step. Deborah Doane hits quickly on CSR’s underlyingfallacy:...
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Monday
September 26
2005An Enabling Environment for Doing Business?
The World Bank’s annual Doing Business report carries the subtitle “Creating Jobs” this year (free overview available - PDF). Its indicators - using data comparable across a remarkable 155 countries - can be used to analyze how governments encourage or inhibit investment,...
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Monday
September 19
2005Al Hammond: The BOP is WorldChanging
At last week’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York, NextBillion.net’s Al Hammond had the chance to sit down with Emily Gertz of WorldChanging. They discussed some of the “tools, models and ideas for building a better future” - and how they relate to the BOP - in an extended...
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