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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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Not Every Microborrower is an Entrepreneur
(Photo: The Women of Akbarpura, by Flickr user lecercle, used under a Creative Commons license.) NextBillion readers often ask me why we don’t cover the microfinance industry more closely. After all, microfinance is a slam dunk BoP success story: a business strategy that helps...
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Job: SME Equity Finance Director, BiD Network Foundation
Position: SME Equity Finance Director Location: Amsterdam, with regular travel Organization: The BiD Network Foundation operates the world?s largest international business plan competition for SMEs in developing countries. It does this online worldwide through its 16,000 member...
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Will Greed Save Africa?
Some NextBillion readers may have noticed a rather provocatively titled piece that appeared recently as the cover article for BusinessWeek: “Can Greed Save Africa?” What a way to cut to the chase! The article probably makes most development and aid activists squirm. After all,...
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