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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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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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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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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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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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Tom Friedman’s Perfect Column: Patient Capital in Africa
I really like Tom Friedman - I have since high school, when a summer program I attended assigned his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. I’ve also seen him sitting in DC cafes, running to catch cabs, and even met him in person at WRI’s 25th Anniversary Dinner. Nice guy. Smart, too....
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Rising Ventures: Envirovision Aims to Move Businesses Beyond Greenwashing
This Investor Feature is based on a recent interview with Yeung Hau Man, founder of Envirovision. Hau Man is dedicating his career to creating sound, standardized sustainability reporting at a time when such reporting is frequently ambiguous, unreliable, and extremely easy to manipulate for the...
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Jane Nelson on Business’ Role in Development
Jane Nelson, who wears many hats (IBLF, Kennedy School, Brookings), spoke yesterday at a meeting of the Global Poverty Roundtable at the GlobalWorks Foundation here in Washington. Jane offered a wide-ranging, yet concise summary of all of the ways business can engage in development. Jane said ...
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