Articles by Seema Patel
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Wednesday
December 20
2006BOP Activity Update: Village Herbs, Nutrition, Microfinance
It has been interesting and worthwhile to me to have the opportunity to sift through NextBillion?s multitude of resources in search of projects to add to the activity database. The projects I have come across never cease to inspire. Some are new twists on old ideas combining traditional...
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Thursday
December 7
2006Private Schools for the Poor (II)
The people of Naini were angry. The primary school in their impoverished Himalayan village had just two teachers for more than 110 children in the first through fifth grades. Their kids spent most of the time working on their own. With so many students per teacher, and each teacher working with...
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Tuesday
December 5
2006Private Schools for the Poor
Two new World Bank policy papers have come out recently reporting on the status of public and private schools in Pakistan (via PSD Blog). The reports show that, contrary to most perceptions, the average private school is affordable even to the poor. These reports focus specifically on Pakistan....
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Thursday
November 30
2006Easy Money – Criticizing Microcredit
There is no doubt that there is something to microcredit, though there are critics. But have we let the hype behind the idea, (see Rob’s post about Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize) blind our ability to see its faults?? This Forbes article, Easy Money, goes deeper into some of the fallacies of...
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Tuesday
November 14
2006“Uniting the World through Compassionate Trade” – One World Projects
One World Projects was founded by Phil Smith, a pioneer in the Fair Trade world before it was hot. Originally conceived as a sustainable alternative for communities living in rainforest areas, Phil worked directly with communities to create crafts from renewable resources and then sold them to...
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Friday
November 10
2006New in the Activity Database: Agora, Streetwires, AmazonLife and More
I’ve been reading through a slew of successful BOP business models and am continually and consistently amazed and inspired by people?s fortitude and creativity. I find myself thinking, “How did they come up with that?” and other times I wonder “Why didn?t I think of...
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Thursday
November 9
2006News Roundup: Risk-Reward Edition
"It’s a moment to balance the global with the local.” - Dr. Abhay Bang, director of SEARCHNextBillion?s news section contains 4 new items, all of which pertain to ?risk? in relation to the BOP community. But this risk I am referring to is two-fold. These news items address...
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Tuesday
October 31
2006Rwandan coffee to Vegetable oil to Bug repellant?activities of all shapes, sizes, tastes and smell
So much to read, so little time?but these activities are definitely worth a look-over.Berni Labs - Distributing “Bug Balancer” Pest repellant for farmersJorge Berni, a longtime resident of the agriculture-dependent community in Los Mochis, Mexico, was convinced that farmers needed...
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