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On Talent Building: Goldman Invests in Ten Thousand Women
Who better than two remarkable female leaders to quote?introducing Goldman Sachs’ recently launched 10,000 Women program?"Creating more female entrepreneurs in developing and emerging economies satisfies all the requirements of smart development: the benefits will multiply far...
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Technology Diffusion: A Unique and Unexplored Challenge
Soon after we explored the role of Technology in BoP success, Derek pointed me to an interesting article in The Economist: Technology in emerging economies. The article makes a distinction between technology adoption and technology diffusion -- and argues that emerging economies are better at...
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Ethics in the BoP Marketplace
I ran across this Fair and Lovely ad on YouTube recently. For those who don’t know, this product is a skin-lightening cream that was at the center of a debate last year over the value and impact of a BoP approach to poverty alleviation. The ad is in Hindi, but the message is clear:...
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“Smile Train Works as a Charity Because it is Run Like a Business”
The quote is from an interesting NYT Magazine article I just read and got me thinking about successful models to scale the impact of socially minded?initiatives. Freakonomics authors Levitt and Dubner discuss innovative?models implemented by Smile Train and the Prevent Cancer Foundation to...
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Medellin’s Promising Transformation: ?Cultura E? (as in Entrepreneurship)
Ride Metrocable, an impressive system of cable cars that connects to the Metro and carries Medellin’s poorest citizens over the steep hills that host the city’s slums (traveling together with an increasing number of curious tourists). Step down in the uppermost station, and you’ll...
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New Study Details Problems and Prospects for Mobile Phone Banking
By all measures, this has been a pretty long post to finalize.In January, Ana?s post about the mobile phone banking conference at Chemonics aroused a series of insightful comments. Al Hammond then weighed in with a post of his own (he also recently wrote about Biometric Security for Mobile...
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Agora Partnerships: Building Talent With Bamboo
Over the last few months, there?s been plenty of discussion about the growing importance of building talent in the area of BoP business/social enterprise. Moses Lee has mentioned talent often ? in one recent post, he described how a BoP business scheme failed when a group of experienced...
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Don’t Wait for the Rain: Social Marketing for KickStart’s MoneyMaker
NextBillion ally Cat Laine - editor of the excellent AIDG blog - posted a fantastic social marketing video earlier this week that I just had the chance to look at today. Entitled Don’t Wait for the Rain, the video features Maasai rap artist Mr. Ebbo alongside actors portraying the...
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