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iBoP Asia: Science and Technology Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid
iBoP Asia recently announced the winners of their first small grants competition and the second competition is coming up soon. I wanted to highlight the grants program for our readers at NextBillion, as I know that many of you have the ideas they are looking for.
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Job: Innovative Finance Position, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Position: Innovative Finance Role Location: Geneva, Switzerland Organization: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)’s mission is to reduce malnutrition through the use of food fortification and other strategies aimed at improving the health and nutrition of populations at...
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Job: Business Development Manager – Marketing, Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is looking to create a step change in terms of awareness, excitement, and membership in our community of supporters and advocates ? from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and someday millions of people who believe that markets and entrepreneurship have a central role to play in the global fight on poverty.
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Migration in Light of the Economic Crisis
As I was perusing my Sunday New York Times this past week, two stories stood out to me. Both mentioned migrants struggling to keep jobs in the developed nations where they were working. One article profiled Alexandrina Ciurea, a Romanian cleaning woman working in Rome; the other described...
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Hammond vs. Karnani: Debating “Romanticizing the Poor” Part 2
In December, Professor Aneel Karnani published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? At the time, we posted about it here on NextBillion.net and suggested that our review of the article would be forthcoming; it has not, and for that, we apologize...
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Hammond vs. Karnani: Debating “Romanticizing the Poor” Part 1
Editor’s note: In December, Professor Aneel Karnani published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? At the time, we posted about it here on NextBillion.net and suggested that our review of the article would be forthcoming; it has...
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Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
Last month, Aneel Karnani wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review an article entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? In it, he states, "...romanticized views of BoP people as value-conscious consumers and resilient entrepreneurs are not only false, but also harmful." I think a lot of what Karnani says in the article is true ...
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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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