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Taking BoP Strategies To Scale Pt. 2: Connecting Rural Communities
This post is the second 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 tell the story of a rural connectivity pilot project; an example of this new model for development in action. A Last Mile...
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Job: Senior Researcher, Institute for Financial Management and Research
Position: Senior Researcher, BoP Energy Sector Analysis, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)Location: Chennai, IndiaOrganization: The Centre for Development Finance of the IFMR is a development economics research and action centre. It was formally established in...
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Taking Base of the Pyramid Strategies To Scale Pt.1: An Introduction to Transformative Sector Strate
This post is the first of 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 introduce the conceptual framework for this innovative poverty-alleviation model. “It doesn’t exactly keep me up at...
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Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis – Vote Now!
As Ana first reported back in February, Ashoka’s Changemakers and the Global Water Challenge have partnered to open a worldwide search for ideas and projects with the potential to transform the provision of sanitation and water worldwide.? The search, entitled Unclogging the Water and...
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Utilities at the Base of the Pyramid
It was sunny, and tempting to sit outside at the University of San Diego to enjoy the weather. Inside, however, a group of global practitioners and scholars - organized by Patricia Marquez of USD and Carlos Rufin of Sussex University and Babson College - were discussing the role of utilities at...
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Africa Investment Horizons
As I turned the corner, it appeared almost out of nowhere - a monument to the successes (and failures) of capitalism - the New York Stock Exchange. I had ventured downtown to attend the premiere of Carol Pineau’s new documentary, Africa Investment Horizons, which was being screened inside...
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Video: Making the Case for Inclusive Business in Latin America
The WBCSD-SNV Alliance?recently?released a fantastic video introducing their?work in the promotion of inclusive?business models across Latin America.Besides profiling interesting models?that bridge the interests of?MNCs and the base of the pyramid, the video highlights the role...
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God at the Base of the Pyramid?
A key concept when operating a business at the base of the pyramid, or in any place for that matter, is contextualization. And by contextualization I mean a deep understanding and embrace of local culture. A simple example of contextualization in business can be observed by comparing the...
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