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Microfinance Reaches More Than 100 Million Poor as Clouds Gather in the Horizon
When Muhammad Yunus, Ingrid Munro and other microfinance pioneers, got together in the first Microfinance Summit in 1997, they adopted what for many was an impossible goal: to reach 100 million people living with less than $1 per day by 2005.? Although the deadline was missed, the 100m mark was reached in 2007, an incredible feat nonetheless.
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D.light Looking for Talented Fellows
D.Light, the renewable energy organization that distributes clean sources of light in the developing world, is looking for its first class of Fellows.D.Light, which has often been mentioned on NextBillion, is an incredible start-up that was founded by savvy Stanford MBA graduates Sam Goldman...
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President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid: Part 2
There has been a lot of buzz about new models of foreign aid and the role of social entrepreneurs since our post on President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid. Guest blogger Apoorva Shah also shared some great points about the important actors in aid reform,...
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Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare
Editor’s note: Al Hammond, entrepreneur in residence at Ashoka, will write a series of reports documenting his experiences and the learning involved in started a "base of the pyramid"; (BoP) healthcare venture to serve developing countries. This is his first report in the...
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Connecting Dots …
Last Friday Rob wrote news about new Base of the Pyramid conversations taking place, this time in Davos. Great news indeed. For those who can attend, venues like that of Davos (or the one starting tomorrow in Long Beach) are the time of the year when they allow their brains get picked by new...
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Guest Post: Aid and Foreign Assistance Reform in the Obama Administration
The American Enterprise Institute?recently convened a two-day symposium on the future of U.S. development policy and foreign assistance. The nexus between development and enterprise was a recurring theme at the event, and participants discussed how entrepreneurial philanthropy, social...
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Job: Pakistan Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
Position: Pakistan Portfolio Manager Location: Karachi, Pakistan Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund, focused on supporting the delivery of critical services ? water, health, housing, energy ? at affordable prices to the four billion people earning...
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Job: Search and Selection Associate, Endeavor
Position: Search and Selection AssociateLocation: New YorkOrganization: Founded in 1997, Endeavor works with High-Impact Entrepreneurs in Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa, and India. High-Impact Entrepreneurs are operating for-profit businesses with enormous growth potential....
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