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Making Sense of Mobile Money: An Interview with Ben Lyon of Frontline SMS:Credit
To get a handle on all this mobile money buzz and walk through what mobile payments really look like, I sat down for a tutorial with Ben Lyon of FrontlineSMS Credit while he was in the Bay Area to speak at Google.
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A Kiva Fellow Experience with Microfinance in Bolivia: Part 1
Living and breathing Kiva for three months implied me getting involved with microfinance in every sense - with laypeople that lend in hopes of making an impact,the underrated loan officers, and equally importantly, the other Kiva Fellows that constantly collaborated on best practices and shared an excited, passionate energy online.
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Overwhelming Response to the NextBillion Case Competition
I’m pleased to let the NextBillion community know that we had over 20 submissions to the first annual NextBillion Case Writing Competition from teams all over the world!
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Introducing NextBillion?s Newest Managing Partner: WDI
As announced in January, The William Davidson Institute (WDI) has joined the World Resources Institute and Acumen Fund as co-Managing Partners of the NextBillion.net site. This post is intended to introduce WDI to the NextBillion community and to invite you to explore ways to engage with the Institute.
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Market Linkages: The Achilles’ Heel of Livelihoods
Over the last two decades, models for livelihoods for the poor have come of age and many organizations have focused their efforts on reducing the vulnerability of marginalized communities. Though these models have been successful in creating employment, they haven’t scaled to realize their true potential.
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WDI Workshop on Collecting Outcome Data at the Project Level
At WDI’s BoP Initiative, we have developed a robust, straightforward and low-cost process to collect outcome data at the project level. Our upcoming workshop (Feb 17-19) will focus on teaching organizations how to think through key components in order to develop a sound methodology to collect outcome data using the BoP Impact Assessment Framework.
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Moringa Oleifera: Miracle Tree for the Rural Poor?
A recurring theme in romantic novels and movies is that you travel all over the world to finally find what you were searching for, right where you began. Could it be that the answer to malnutrition and self sustaining communities be a plant which has been growing in their back yard for all this time?
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A Call for Innovation and Collaboration
We often talk about sustainability in development or compose programs that aspire to that end, but far less often do we address or share instances of setback. In a recent trip to Swaziland I visited TechnoServe’s cotton program and was struck by the setback incurred when a prominent aid agency interrupted the efforts of this program.
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