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2010: The Year of Lessons in Corporate Governance
Sometimes corporate governance is taken for granted; other times it’s totally ignored. Either way, the year 2010 has illustrated the need to ramp up corporate governance on the development through enterprise agenda.
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Looking Back at The Best of 2010
It’s the end-of-year holiday season and we take some time to reflect on what 2010 meant for the Next Billion and the Base of the Pyramid idea. Starting on Monday you’ll have a chance to read a special series...
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Rural Marketing Congress India 2010: Reaching the 700 Million
Rural Marketing Congress India 2010 organized by Ideas-Exchange earlier this month. The event brought together panelists and delegates from companies of varied sectors and sizes - all focused on marketing to the 700 million strong and largely under-served Indian rural market.
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Five Reasons BusinessWeek is Wrong About Pakistan
A recent article from BusinessWeek entitled, "A Silver Lining In Pakistan," posited that the flooding disasters "may have given the country an opportunity to tackle a recurring point of contention in Pakistan: feudalism" through jobs creation. Yes, it is critical to create jobs, but that alone will neither solve poverty nor wash away feudalism.
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Guest Post: ThinkImpact Offers A New Approach to Catalyzing Rural Entrepreneurs
How do we unlock the innumerable income opportunities at the BoP? I started ThinkImpact as a vehicle to find answers to this question. We’re seeking applicants to join us on our 10-week Innovation Institute Scholars Program in rural Kenya and South Africa - where they will live work with entrepreneurs to develop community-based social innovations.
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Practical Progress Via the ’Opportunity Collaboration’
In October, the Opportunity Collaboration convened a group of 300 social investors and entrepreneurs to generate a strong cross-pollination of ideas and action for poverty reduction. In a recent interview, Founder and CEO Jonathan C. Lewis provided an update on the OC’s impact and shared some unvarnished views on the state of microfinance.
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Weekly Roundup-12/17/2010: Accessing Finance, Opportunity and More
As the holiday season approaches and many emails begin to switch to holiday travel mode next week, I want to take a moment to let everyone know that at NextBillion the lights will continue to burn brightly. So be sure to drop in to the site to participate in this conversation. Now on to the weekly roundup...
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Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize: CGD’s Impact Investing Report
"More than Money: Impact Investing for Development" attempts to capture current perceptions and foresight around impact investing. While building a competitive new financial asset market, impact investors also expect to aim for a broader social impact. "More than Money" outlines basic and approachable recommendations to realize both goals.
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