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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 5: Concluding Thoughts
This post is the last in a five part series on a radical new approach to scaling BoP business models, what we call a transformative sector strategy. In this segment, I address the six preceding guest posts that commented on this strategy and offer some concluding thoughts. I welcome these...
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NextBillion’s Grace Augustine to Join Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog
I received an e-mail today from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, one of my favorite journals in the ’third sector’ space. The e-mail was to inform subscribers that SSIR has added 5 new writers to its influential Opinion Blog - including NextBillion.net’s very own Grace...
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Guest Post: Platform Strategies for Scaling
Guest blogger Francisco Mej?a is a Principal in the Opportunities for the Majority Office at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), based in Washington DC. He currently leads the preparation of various transactions involving the financing of BoP projects in leading and innovative...
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Guest Post: John Paul Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school’s Center for Sustainable Global EnterpriseIn this post,...
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Guest Post: The Transformative Sector Approach in Latin America
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundaci?n AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
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