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Job: Business Development Analyst, Acumen Fund
Position: Business Development Associate/AnalystLocation: New York CityOrganization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to create a blueprint for building financially sustainable and scalable...
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How to Stimulate Innovation in India?
This is exactly the same question that was asked by the World Bank last year and I have recently had the chance to read their subsequent report ?Unleashing India?s Innovation?. All in all it was an interesting reading with a complete analysis of the main innovation levers in the...
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Roundup: Growing Inclusive Markets, iBOP Asia and More
A quick roundup of base of the pyramid news and notes, including a few new publications that have made it on my to-read list: The UN Development Program launched a new website highlighting its Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative, which Staff Writer Grace Augustine covered here. (Full...
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Doing Business Series Gets Slammed by World Bank Watchdog
"So, what do you think about the IEG report?” I was g-chatting with my friend Smita the other night when she brought up the World Bank. “What IEG report? What’s the IEG?” I replied, showing my ignorance of the latest Bank goings on (and of the acronym ? it stands for...
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Job: Interns/ Volunteers for the Question Box Project
Rose Shuman, founder of Open Mind and the innovative Question Box project, shared with us?the following?work opportunity. Please read on if you are interested in working with the venture that is?making the ’Digital Alladin’s Lamp’ a reality.?Position: Interns/...
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Morning Roundup: Water Privatization and Dignified P2P Lending
There have been some interesting base of the pyramid-related topics afoot in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere lately, including a call for water privatization in developing countries and a self-critical blog post authored by the founder of a media-darling BoP startup. Without...
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Reporting from the Growing Inclusive Markets Forum
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Growing Inclusive Markets Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Management of Dalhousie University and the Coady Institute of St. Francis Xavier University. The Growing Inclusive Markets initiative...
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“Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor” – An Analysis of the Report
A key issue that the BoP development world currently faces is generating a tangible connection between markets, enterprise and the poor. After all, if we are going to alleviate poverty through enterprise, we require effective strategies that enable the BoP to participate in profitable business...
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