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Another Biking Innovation for the Base of the Pyramid
File this under the eye-catching-BoP-design category and add it to the list of fascinating cycle innovations intended to meet multiple needs for the poor - in this case, the challenges of water filtration and transportation. The product is called the Aquaduct, a tricycle designed by a team...
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?Harnessing the World?s Untapped Talent through Responsible Outsourcing?: An interview with Le
I recently had the pleasure of spending some time speaking to Leila Chirayath, founder and CEO of Samasource (previously Market for Change), an organization that promotes socially responsible outsourcing to fight?"the waste of talent” around the world. This first part covers...
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Do Companies That Engage in BoP Markets Outperform the Market?
Thanks to Dana Krechowicz, Associate, Markets and Enterprise Program at WRI, for providing the background on Socially Responsible Investing. In April of this year, The Opportunities for the Majority Office of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors...
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Morning Roundup: Development Outreach, Aravind and Mumbai’s Street Vendors
A quick tour through my RSS feeds yielded some very rich content today.? Here’s a brief overview: The latest issue of Development Outreach has come out.? The magazine, published by the World Bank Institute, straddles the line between academic publication and public interest periodical...
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Imagination with Realism: What Works for Microfinance
Microfinance, in its for-profit avatar, is attracting capital, talent, blogposts - you name it - and a fair bit of criticism. So when Alex Counts, President & CEO of the Grameen Foundation proposed his vision for Reimagining Microfinance in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, he targeted...
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Lapdesk, Part II: An Interview with Shane Immelman
Welcome to part II of the ?Endeavor? series. You may recall that part I involved a rather interesting conversation with Dan Isenberg, a Harvard Business School professor who had written a case about Endeavor entrepreneur, Lapdesk. Given that dialogue, it seemed only natural to continue...
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News Roundup: Investments in People, Philanthrocapitalism and the SSIR
A spate of blogworthy mainstream media articles have come out recently, prompting this base of the pyramid news roundup: Over the weekend, the Financial Times ran two pieces side by side.? The first, entitled ’Investing in People’ by journalist Sarah Murray, smartly discusses the...
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Food Price Inflation and the BoP
Most of NextBillion’s visitors have heard about the current jump in food prices. These higher prices have already triggered responses locally in the form of riots in countries such as Haiti, Egypt and Bangladesh. The OECD and FAO have recently issued a report predicting that food prices...
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