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Event: Ashoka’s Arthur Wood on Alternative Development Finance
Pablo pointed me to this event, which will be held tomorrow in DC:Top Down, Bottom Up: Searching for New Ways of Financing DevelopmentAugust 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m. The Center for Global Development. 3rd Floor, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC The funding of international...
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BOP Roundup
While browsing online this morning, I found a couple of new interesting ideas on the blogosphere worth mentioning on NextBillion today: The PSDBlog of the World Bank has touched the subject of biofuels (which I blogged on last week). They quote a very interesting article regarding world...
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Rising Ventures Investor Profile: Pramod Shedde
This Investor Feature is based on a recent interview with Pramod Shedde, a pioneer of India’s venture capital sector. Pramod discusses problems and prospects for sustainable SME investment in India and explains why many of the country’s green funds are getting it wrong.PDF Version of...
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Conference Report – Innovation for the Third Sector
Guest blogger Ben Powell is Managing Partner of Agora Partnerships. Last week, he traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to attend Innovation for the Third Sector: Sustainability and Social Impact, and filed this report. Read below for Ben’s observations of the rapidly growing Latin American social...
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Coincidence or Cross-Subsidy?
Here is an interesting case of serendipity where a product designed for a developing market has found application in a bigger and more mature market albeit in a niche space:For over a decade, Procter & Gamble has been distributing sachets of its PuR water purifying powder at cost in...
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Is there a BOP in the United States?
When I think about people living in the BOP, I immediately picture people in developing countries. I didn?t really picture people in the U.S. as people in the BOP. I have realized now after living for six weeks in the D.C. area that I could not be further from the truth. There is a big...
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Tapan Parikh: Simple Innovations, Big Impact
Tapan Parikh (left) has proved that innovations need not be as complex as they are made out to be. Often, simple ideas make the best impact. What makes Tapan different ? and Technology Review’s 2007 Humanitarian of the Year ? is that he saw in mobile phones an accessible opportunity for...
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Public vs. Private Education in Developing Countries: A Matter of Long-Term Investment
I often find myself criticizing governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be critical, but must also realize that, as a responsible society, we cannot and should not leave everything to the government and...
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