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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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Passing the Bucks ? A BoP Market Looking for Some Action?
"I’m giving away 2 percent of my net income every month... I don’t think Bill Gates is doing that.” So says Turkish billionaire Husnu M. Ozyegin in an interview for a New York Times piece last Friday about the philanthropy of individuals who have recently achieved phenomenal...
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New Finance Development Magazine: Upsides
Last week, while checking out some regular blogs, I bumped into a short note about a magazine called “Upsides” in the CGAP Blog.Upsides is an FMO (the Netherlands Finance Development Company) initiative, supported by other likeminded financial institutions such as Standard Bank,...
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Job Opportunity: Rwanda Investment Fund Seeks CEO
(Via Emeka Okafor and the International Private Enterprise Group) Equity Investment Firm in Rwanda seeks a CEO to oversee all of its investments. The position is based in Kigali, Rwanda. The firm is investing $25-50 million of equity into a portfolio of companies based in Rwanda. The CEO will...
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Piramal Prize: $25k for Healthcare Innovations
Anand Shah, CEO of the Piramal Foundation and a NextBillion reader, alerted me to the recently-announced $25,000//10 lakh rupees Piramal Prize for Innovations that Democratize Healthcare.? In his e-mail, he notes that prize was created ...to encourage and support bold entrepreneurial ideas...
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Guest Post: L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007
Shatajit Basu, a college junior at IIT Madras and a core member of the India chapter of Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship society (ASES), attended the L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007 and sent us this guest post.By Shatajit BasuThe L-RAMP Innovation Awards is a joint initiative of premier...
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