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A BoP Energy Source?
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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Sun Microsystems’ CEO Schwartz on Emerging Markets and the BoP
I had an interesting meeting today, during which one of the people I was speaking with brought up a talk given by Jonathan Schwartz last August. Schwartz - the CEO of Sun Microsystems - delivers a fascinating talk over about 25 minutes during which he relates important demographic and...
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Entrepreneurs: Smart, Social….Taller?
?What Makes an Entrepreneur?? asks a World Bank study released last month. The authors found answers by conducting interviews with 400 Brazilian entrepreneurs, non-entrepreneurs and ?failed? entrepreneurs on a variety of subjects that range from the obvious (Parents’ level of...
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Leapfrog Fund Winners Announced by Schwab, Lemelson
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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From the ToP to the BoP
In 2007, I had the opportunity to consult for a newly formed NGO trying to establish a BoP venture in South East Asia. The NGO’s management team had years of experience running small-to-medium sized businesses, had raised a sizable amount of capital, and had formed an all-star team of...
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Job – Communications Officer and Web Editor, CGAP
Position: Communications Officer / Web EditorLocation: Washington, DCOrganization: CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is a consortium of 33 public and private funding organizations - bilateral and multilateral development agencies, private foundations, and international financial...
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Event: Africa Entrepreneurship Platform
If you believe that Africa is indeed open for business, consider attending the launch of the Africa Entrepreneurship Platform at the Harvard Club of New York on Thursday, February 28th. The quarterly forum, supported by the Clinton Global Initiative and administered by the South African...
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Can Carbon Offsets Provide Livelihoods for the BoP?
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions ? and, therefore, global warming ? will require a suite of solutions. The scope of traditional conservation efforts is limited, since most of the world is adopting developed-world lifestyles and consumption habits as their incomes rise. Experts and...
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