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Solutions That Sustain
Outlook magazine recently profiled a new breed of social entrepreneurs in India (The article: The Spirit of Ants, can be read for free once an account is created at Outlookindia.com)When I last wrote about a micro financier role in partnering for financial literacy, I did not know that Chetna...
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The Tech Museum Awards Laureautes Announced
Technology Benefiting Humanity and the Tech Museum Awards winners were announced earlier this month. These awards recognize and support solutions that benefit humanity and address some of the most critical issues facing our planet and its people. The Laureates are announced each year and they...
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Disruptive Innovations Contest Winners
Here on NextBillion, we have followed the Disruptive Innovations contest from Ashoka very closely, hoping that a new ?disruptive innovation? will provide a good idea or innovation for the BOP. The winners were announced earlier this month and truthfully, I am very disappointed. There were...
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BoP Job Opportunity with the Omidyar Network
The Omidyar? Network supports the conditions that enable individuals to tap their own potential to make life better for themselves and others. Since 2004, Omidyar Network has funded nonprofit and for-profit efforts in a number of areas, including microfinance, participatory media, open...
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Building the Ship As It Sails – Review of Innovations Journal
My entry into the world of BOP is shockingly recent ? in fact, I?ll even admit that I learned what the acronym stood for (Base or Bottom of the Pyramid ? referring to a very large and often marginalized part of the global income strata) as recently as June. This was after I left academia,...
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Mobile Banking Conference at Chemonics International
Last week I attended to a conference at Chemonics International by John Owens on mobile banking (m-banking). Almost every writer on NextBillion has written blog posts about this new approach to banking. According to John Owens -chief of party for MABS from Chemonics International- m-banking is...
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Let’s Get (BoP Businesses) Started in Here: Doing Business 2008 Released
NextBillion ally Chris Monasterski, editor of the excellent PSD Blog, wrote me a short e-mail this evening alerting me to the release of the 2008 Doing Business rankings.? This year marks the fifth edition of the annual rankings, which measures the ease of doing business in 178 countries...
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Interview With David Bornstein and Other Thoughts
"In the face of this new reality, an increasing number of forward-looking nonprofits are beginning to appreciate the increased revenue, focus and effectiveness that can come from adopting “for profit” business approaches. Increasingly, they are reinventing themselves as social...
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