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Innovative Mobile Phone Strategies in the Developing World
At the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School, five innovators discussed their work and the prospects of mobile applications for the Base of the Pyramid.
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Bob Annibale: ?Banker to the Banker of the Poor?
Citi’s name is all over the highlight reel of microfinance’s growth in the last decade by "mainstreaming microfinance" into its global operations. More recently, Citi has been developing non-credit products, including microinsurance and savings plans for unbanked customers, according to Bob Annibale, Global Director of Citi Microfinance
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Book Your Calendar for NSEF ’Confluence’
National Student Entrepreneurship Forum is hosting its annual meeting, "Confluence," on Oct. 23 and features an impressive speaker line up from some of the top organizations in this sector.
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What Khosla’s New Fund Says About the BoP Evolution
Billionaire Vinod Khosla made bucketloads of money on the SKS IPO. Rather than take his money and exit, his new fund will recycle the initial social investment capital into a new, high-risk sector: firms serving the base of the pyramid. What does this tell us about the evolution of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) sector?
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Power to the People Part II: Assessing Clean Energy Customers
Dirty cookstoves, used by as many as 3 billion people globally, are responsible for the deaths of 1.6 to 1.9 million each year, with women and children most affected. These are big numbers ? and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has set out to address a big problem.
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’NextThought Monday’: Lisa Simpson, Carl Schramm and Skepticism
NextThought Monday is a new feature I?m starting at here NextBillion. Each Monday, I hope to introduce a new idea, point of view, or simply a guide to help you chart out the week ahead in the BoP space. This week we’ll explore the skepticism of microfinance and international development, and what we can learn from it.
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ANDE Conference Wrap Up: Video Interviews
The second-annual Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) conference wrapped up with several goals for 2011, including plans to launch at least two additional regional hubs, launch a research agenda and hold 2011 annual conference. For more, as well as several video interviews with participants, please read on.
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SOCAP10: Learning for Social Impact
From SOCAP10, a Q&A with Laura Callanan, who leads McKinsey & Co.’s research on social impact assessment and social investing. Laura identifies three key trends that give her hope that social impact assessment is moving in the right direction.
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