-
Job: Associate, Satya Capital
UPDATE: THIS POST IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Position: Associate/Director Location: London Organization: Satya Capital Limited is a private investment firm specializing in Africa-related investment, providing companies with the operational, technological and financial resources they need to expand and take advantage of burgeoning...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Base of the Pyramid Scaling Series Now Online in One Place
A quick announcement for readers who only caught bits and pieces of the sector scaling series we ran last week and others who just want to see all of the commentary in one place - we recently packaged all of the series in PDF format and posted it in our resources section. For those who...
- Categories
- Education
- Tags
- academia
-
Microfinance and the Rule of Law: From the Coffeehouse to the Credit Bureau
A recent Forbes publication, “Microfinance Fights Growing Pains,” examined the rapid growth and associated challenges of the microfinance field. As noted in the article (and thanks to Vital Wave Consulting for highlighting this), the explosion of new entrants and the overall rapid...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Introducing Staff Writer David Lehr
The NextBillion.net team is proud to introduce our newest member: Staff Writer David Lehr. David has over fifteen years of experience in international business and development focused primarily on information communication technologies and job creation and is currently Senior Advisor, Social...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Guest Post: Local Innovation And Enterprise – The L-RAMP Model
Guest blogger Arun Sharma is Scouting Lead for Innovations at the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-RAMP). He is also a writer for L-RAMP Blog, which explores trends in social enterprise, innovation, technology and poverty alleviation. By Arun Sharma Meet Dr. Venkata...
- Categories
- Education
- Tags
- academia
-
New CGAP Study: Known Knowns And Known Unknowns About Branchless Banking
This weekend I had the chance to read CGAP?s new report about branchless banking. The report is a short summary about the current state of the branchless banking market. To those readers who do not know anything of the market it is an easy introduction. To those readers who have been...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Telling Stories Over Stats: The S.E.VEN Film Competition
Stephen J. Gould once called humans “the primates who tell stories.” Stories are part of how we transfer culture, they are a device through which we shape our identity and relationship to the world - in the development community, they are a way to get people to act. Stories help...
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
Base of the Pyramid (BoP) strategy has a few key tenets, one of which is the power of aggregated demand. Those living at the base of the economic pyramid may have little buying power on their own, but when they are pooled together, their consolidated demand amounts to a viable market. ...
- Categories
- Education
- Tags
- academia