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Guest Post: The Major Leagues of Microfinance
Guest blogger Matt MacGregor is a second year Masters Candidate at the Fletcher School, studying development economics and international environmental resource policy.? A native of Little Compton, RI, USA, he has consulted on savings-led microfinance programs for Catholic Relief Services in...
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The Business Model of Hope and Dreams
It is often the case that business models touch but rarely elaborate on the aspirational value of many products offered for the first time at the BOP level and the subconscious consequences they have on BOP consumers. I recently read, with a touch of sadness, a short article published in the...
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Four Questions for MicroPlace Founder Tracey Pettengill Turner
In case you haven’t heard, there’s this new thing called MicroPlace. It’s a major turn in the life of the microfinance movement founded by entrepreneur (philanthropreneur?) Tracey Pettengill Turner. In between advancing her vision for solutions to poverty and running Ironman...
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Echoing Green’s 2008 Fellowship – Apply Now
Echoing Green is an angel investor for entrepreneurs focused on social change. I wrote about a couple of their 2007 fellows earlier this summer. They provide seed funding and support to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector,...
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Shengchang Bioenergy ? Building China’s BOP Biomass Market
Biofuels have become a fashionable and controversial topic of late (just yesterday, the New York Times reported on resistance to ethanol in Iowa). Debates range from lauding the benefits of renewable energy sources to questioning whether biofuels will raise prices of staple comestibles, leaving...
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Katherine Fulton on “Acumen’s Moment”
I am in New York City today, attending the 2007 Acumen Fund Investor Gathering.? This annual event is an opportunity for NextBillion ally Acumen Fund to engage its stakeholders - investors, entrepreneurs, partners and supporters - in a discussion of where the fund has been and where it’s...
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Internship: Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization in Washington, DC seeks a part time or full time intern to provide administrative and research support to CGD?s executive office. The Intern will support the executive office in a...
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Latin American Forum for Inclusive Business: Al Hammond Goes to Chile, and The Next Four Billion Deb
This week, AVINA, FUNDES, and MASISA are hosting a regional 3-day workshop for Inclusive Businesses and a special Business Forum in Santiago, Chile. WRI’s Al Hammond is participating as a panelist at the Forum today and sent the following comments in from Santiago:Inclusive Business...
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