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“Next Billion” Thinking and Big Business
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise. He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Guest Post: Coping With Abundance
Guest blogger Bill Kramer was, until recently, WRI?s Director of Education and Training for the Markets & Enterprise Program, and? Deputy Director of Development Through Enterprise.? He now runs Global Challenge Network, an executive education and training company. His email is...
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Jobs – Triple Jump – Investment and Senior Investment Officers
Triple Jump currently is hiring for two positions: Investment Officer and Senior Investment Officer. Both positions are based in Amsterdam, and are initially for one year.Triple Jump is a fund management company specializing in managing funds that invest in financial institutions offering...
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“Filling the Finance Gap” The Clinton Global Initiative’s Poverty Alleviation Working Group Session
How do we get more capital to the people who want to start their own SMEs? It is difficult to make a case for this “missing middle.” NextBillion has identified this problem in the past, and it seems like now the issue is beginning to unfold in the development debate: the Clinton...
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Job – Scojo Partner Franchise Manager
Scojo Foundation requires an individual to manage the tremendous global growth opportunities within its Franchise Partner Channel.The Franchise Partner Manager will be responsible for developing, managing, and ensuring successful relationships with potential and existing international...
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Reflections on: ?World?s Slum Dwellers: More Like Us Than We Think?
Neal Peirce wrote an article following the Bellagio summit in August expressing great enthusiasm for the potential that grassroots collective action and micro financing tools have for producing changes in urban slums. The thing that struck me most about Peirce?s article was his emphasis on...
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Rising Ventures: CBPAK ’s Sustainable Styrofoam Replacement
In a recent interview with New Ventures staff, CBPAK founder Claudio Bastos discusses how his company is bringing a unique solution to Brazil’s massive packaging industry.PDF version available here Claudio Bastos had plenty of reasons to found his sustainable packaging company, CBPAK, in...
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Bednets and the Demise of Social Marketing – What the NY Times Missed
The New York Times ran an interesting but rather incomplete article yesterday, discussing the split over anti-malaria bednet distribution strategies in Africa and the apparent demise of ?social marketing? as a legitimate approach to reducing illness on a large scale. The article focuses on...
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