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Holiday Hiatus – Back in 2008
NextBillion.net, housed in the Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute, will not have any new content from December 24 through December 31, when most of our writers and contributors will be spending holidays with friends and family.? We’ll be back in January, 2008.Any story...
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BCG publication: Top Companies from Emerging Markets
Julia Tran mentioned in a previous post some Boston Consulting Group (BCG) publications related with the ?Next Billion?. Two more studies were published in November ??Decoding Next Billion Consumers? and ?A Road Map to expanding Financial Inclusion in India? (this second one looks...
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Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees – On Mobile Banking
I found Peter van Dijk’s comments on Ana’s report from the Mobile Banking Conference interesting but not convincing. Not surprisingly, the evolution of mobile phone banking has not been without false steps, fraudulent operators, and systems that have flaws. But evolution also tends to...
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Does BoP Success Require the Moral Imperative?
When I first read the seminal article “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably” in HBR, I found the direction it pointed to elusive. Instead of tugging at sympathy, the paper pointed to an exciting and fast growing market - the immense collective entrepreneurial capabilities and...
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Job: Junior Equity Analyst, Gray Ghost Fund
Position: Junior Equity AnalystLocation: New York, NY -- USAOrganization: Grassroots Capital Management/Gray Ghost Fund manages microfinance investments that seek to achieve medium and long-term capital appreciation together with a positive social impact through private equity investments in...
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Winners: Cornell?s BoP Learning Lab e-Journal Competition
The results are out for first annual BoP e-Journal competition organised by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University?s Johnson School. We have recently blogged about how Cornell’s BoP Learning Labs are moving the discussion to developing markets, and gaining live...
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What?s GOOD: Incubating, Disseminating and Commercializing Appropriate Technology at the BoP
I am sure that few of you are strangers to Amy Smith?s work at MIT?s D-Lab. After all, the D-Lab has been profiled several times here at NextBillion, most recently in an article featured in the news room via GOOD magazine. The article aptly describes D-Lab?s current crop of appropriate...
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Job: Research Assistant, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)
Position: Research AssistantLocation: Washington, DC -- USAOrganization: The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) is an independent, member-based global industry association based in Washington, D.C., that promotes greater understanding of and a more favorable climate for...
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