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Microfinance Action
A wrap of the recent spate of announcements in the microfinance space shows some interesting trends:Investments are coming from across the world and are of significantly larger scale.Dubai-based privately-owned finance firm Legatum Capital, run by one of New Zealand?s richest men -...
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Another Major Milestone for Brazil?s Sustainable Finance Sector
The triple-bottom-line focused Stratus VCIII fund announced its first investment this morning, a major milestone for the firm and more good news for anyone watching the growth of Brazil’s sustainable finance sector. The company, Ecosorb Environmental Protection Technology, serves as an...
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Inclusion for Market Growth
Arun Maira (right), Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India, has written an excellent editorial in India?s prominent business daily, The Economic Times.In his view, Inclusion is the mantra for growth in bottom of the pyramid markets.Maira writes:Down-sizing products and services...
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Mobilizing the Private Sector for Global Health in Toronto
I had the good fortune to attend the conference “Mobilizing the Private Sector for Global Health Development,” organized by the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, Program on Life Sciences and Global Health at the University of Toronto, from May 2-4.The food was really good. The conference...
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Red Hat Making BOP Play
One of my regular news feeds brought this item to my attention, and it struck me as perhaps a meaningful watershed.? Red Hat, the Linux software/middleware company, just announced last week the launch of its “Global Desktop” -- enterprise software at affordable prices.? Red Hat has...
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Mobile4Good
I encountered a strange dilemma while perusing the website of Mobile for Good. Charged with doing a write-up of the organization, I quickly realized that the folks at M4G have already done a great job of describing what they do. As a result, I?ve just reproduced text from the website here,...
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In Kerala, Giving New Meaning to “Give a Man a Fish….”
The old expression goes “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.” An article from the latest issue of the Economist seems to imply that we could add a BoP twist to update this saying - something like “Give a...
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Critical Skills at the BoP Reloaded
When I decided to write about BoP skills, I planned to center the discussion on a conversation I?d had with Yasmina Zaidman of the Acumen Fund. She was kind enough to chat with me a few months ago during an informational interview and gave me a great overview of critical BoP competencies. ...
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