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Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Launches
Do we need another Fellows program?? That was my initial thought when I first heard of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and its related Legatum Fellows program.? After all, there are so many programs dedicated to identifying and supporting existing or budding social...
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Water and Sanitation Discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative
Luckily there are live webcasts for the rest of us who were not able to sit at the sessions and ask questions during the sessions at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. ?I have spent a handful of hours during the last few days browsing around the content of this year’s CGI,...
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Want to Quit Smoking? Try a Mobile Phone
The base of the pyramid conversation often involves talking about the size and composition of BoP markets (which, in fact, was the topic of my previous post) and how to create business models that sustainably create wealth for the people in those communities and the firms involved.I recently...
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Climate Adaptation Funding Priorities Emerge from World Bank?s Development Marketplace
Guest blogger Lauren Withey is a research analyst for the Climate, Energy and?Transport Program at the?at the World Resources Institute, in Washington D.C. By Lauren Withey"So, we are going to help the indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon raise bugs,” the young Colombian...
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BoP 101: A Review of “Must-Read” Literature for Those Interested in the Base of the Pyramid
Thanks to Francisco Noguera for his contribution to this post. Please note that the following should not be seen as an exhaustive compilation of everything that has been written about the base of the pyramid. I encourage NextBillion readers to comment and make suggestions to enrich this...
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Guest Post: Exploring the Food-Fuel Relationship in Rural Development
Guest blogger Peter Moers is economist and the regional coordinator for the Social Trade Organization in Central America. He has worked in several countries in Central America, West Africa and in The Netherlands in small enterprise, cooperative, rural and local economic development. He believes...
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Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Deepinder Mohan from Environment Planning Grou
This year, the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University piloted an approach to capture and diseminate systemic knowledge?about?community-scale water treatment and sanitation. Four of the?entrepreneurs this year?represented projects that address these challenges. Deepinder...
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NextBillion.net Welcomes Staff Writer Mark Beckford
The?NextBillion.net team is?proud to introduce its newest member: Staff Writer Mark Beckford. Mark is a veteran of corporate base of the pyramid strategies. He worked for Intel?from?1995 through 2008, where he?had a prominent role?shaping the company’s strategy in emerging markets....
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