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The “Other India”
In the context of fast and unequal growth in India’s economy, Outlook magazine released its special issue on its annual State of the Nation survey.Using India?s poorest district - Bolangir (Orissa) - as an example, the issue attempts to document how fast paced growth in an urban economy...
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Design for the Other 90 Percent
Sunday’s New York Times featured an extra-large insert on design.? Most of the articles therein dealt with uber-modern furniture, clothes I would never dream of wearing, chic buildings on the Upper West Side, etc.? Not my speed.As I leafed through it anyway (it was a lazy, rainy Monday...
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Behind the Scenes at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Kevin Jones is a principal with Good Capital. He has extensive entrepreneurial and private investment experience in a range of technology and social enterprises. Kevin has also been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0. He attended this week?s Skoll World Forum on Social...
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International Private Enterprise Group – DC – March Meeting
The March meeting of DC’s International Private Enterprise Group is tomorrow, March 29.? We’ll be meeting upstairs at Zorba’s Cafe in DuPont Circle (map) at 6:00 - we have the whole space reserved, so it should be a good space to hear speakers while having a bite to eat.This...
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BiD Challenge Enters its 3rd Year
In Uganda, there is a small business whose model is based on manufacturing and selling products made from indigenous tree bark. The bark can be sustainably collected as this particular species of tree has the property of easily regrowing bark after being stripped bare. The material is...
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TN4B: Focus on Financial Services
The Next 4 Billion includes a whole chapter on a topic for which we were unable to present a single, real number from our analysis of household surveys. Not surprisingly, the chapter is short. So, why did we include it, if we couldn?t report any numbers? And why do we recommend it to you?...
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Interview With a P2P Lender: Kiva.org
The innovative peer-to-peer microlending site Kiva.org received a new round of PR today when Nicholas Kristof featured the site in his New York Times column.? Check out an excerpt at the NB Newsroom or Times Select for the full column (subscription required).? Readers have also been chiming in...
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Guest Blogger: Cracking the Capital Markets for Microfinance
Guest blogger James Dailey worked at Grameen Foundation’s Technology Center for five years and lead the development of the Microfinance Open Source project. He also teaches Microfinance at the University of Washington. He is a founding member and CTO of MicroFinance ClearingHouse. By...
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