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  • Rob Katz

    Changemakers – Putting Health Innovations into Practice

    Web 2.0, meet BOP. (Wow, now that is a jargon-laden sentence.) Hopefully my jargon serves to highlight some of the latest efforts to bring the broad web community together in search of the next, best base of the pyramid idea. Yesterday, I introduced IBM’s upcoming ThinkPlace Challenge -...

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  • Rob Katz

    BOP Job Announcements – Intellecap and IAMFI

    A couple of BOP-related jobs have come across my desk lately.? Read on for the full descriptions:Intellecap is a consulting firm focused on capital advisory for the inclusive finance space and creating and delivering mainstream, profitable solutions to address the problems of poverty and...

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  • Rob Katz

    Big Blue Going to the BOP

    It’s been quiet here on NextBillion the last few days - not by design, but rather out of necessity. Al just returned from two weeks of travel throughout Asia, and met Tuesday and Wednesday here in DC with our partners at Intel and MicroVest. Meanwhile, Bill just returned from Dubai, and...

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  • Tayo Akinyemi

    Conference Report: Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investment

    Well it appears as if last week was ?conference week? here at NextBillion, so it?s my turn to dish on my recent attendee experience. Ready? Here I go. I was fortunate enough to attend ’Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investments,’ a symposium organized by the Emerging...

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  • Nitin Rao

    Roadblocks to Financial Inclusion

    When I recently attended The Second Annual Conference on Public Policy and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, I had not imagined that it will be difficult to summarize it in a blog post. Discussed at the conference - current thinking on the proposed National Rural...

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  • Rob Katz

    Entrepreneurs Hope to Make it to “The Show”

    Ironically enough, I found myself reading this article in the New York Times on an New Jersey Transit express train this morning.? The irony is that I was on my way to a meeting with the Acumen Fund, talking about ways WRI and Acumen might work together. ? Why ironic (cue Alanis...

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  • Julia Tran

    Subsidies at the BOP?

    Cheikh Mbengue, an expert from Abt Associates on community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in Africa, said something that perked my ears last Wednesday at a USAID After Hours Seminar on microinsurance. He said that he thinks CBHIs can’t function effectively without subsidies. No one...

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  • Tayo Akinyemi

    Hard vs. Soft: Defining Critical Skills at the BoP

    When I?ve asked those who are active at the BoP what skills are needed in the space, the answer I receive is deceptively simple: ?everything.? Perhaps this is because, as long time BoP entrepreneur Patrick Donohue explained, BoP is really about the ?creation of markets.? After...

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