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Leapfrog Fund Winners Announced by Schwab, Lemelson
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...
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From the ToP to the BoP
In 2007, I had the opportunity to consult for a newly formed NGO trying to establish a BoP venture in South East Asia. The NGO’s management team had years of experience running small-to-medium sized businesses, had raised a sizable amount of capital, and had formed an all-star team of...
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Job – Communications Officer and Web Editor, CGAP
Position: Communications Officer / Web EditorLocation: Washington, DCOrganization: CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is a consortium of 33 public and private funding organizations - bilateral and multilateral development agencies, private foundations, and international financial...
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Event: Africa Entrepreneurship Platform
If you believe that Africa is indeed open for business, consider attending the launch of the Africa Entrepreneurship Platform at the Harvard Club of New York on Thursday, February 28th. The quarterly forum, supported by the Clinton Global Initiative and administered by the South African...
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Can Carbon Offsets Provide Livelihoods for the BoP?
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions ? and, therefore, global warming ? will require a suite of solutions. The scope of traditional conservation efforts is limited, since most of the world is adopting developed-world lifestyles and consumption habits as their incomes rise. Experts and...
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Change in Latitude, Not in Attitude: I’m Going to Acumen Fund
As the week winds down, I have some exciting news to share: in a few weeks, I will be leaving World Resources Institute (NextBillion’s parent organization) to take a full-time position with the Acumen Fund, a NextBillion ally and major player in the BoP movement. I am excited to be...
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I’ll Be Just a Blog Away
NextBillion readers, the time has come for me also to bid you goodbye as a daily contributor to NextBillion.net. It’s been a great six-month run for me here at the World Resources Institute, and I will greatly miss sharing the interest of hundreds of you out there who are watching BoP...
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Event: How to Do Business at the Base of the Pyramid – Madrid, Spain
Later this month, I will be traveling to Madrid to attend a day-long forum sponsored by Accenture, Compromiso Empresarial and the City of Madrid entitled “Como Hacer Negocios en la Base de la Piramide” (How to Do Business at the Base of the Pyramid). Others addressing the forum...
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