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Building the Ship As It Sails – Review of Innovations Journal
My entry into the world of BOP is shockingly recent ? in fact, I?ll even admit that I learned what the acronym stood for (Base or Bottom of the Pyramid ? referring to a very large and often marginalized part of the global income strata) as recently as June. This was after I left academia,...
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Mobile Banking Conference at Chemonics International
Last week I attended to a conference at Chemonics International by John Owens on mobile banking (m-banking). Almost every writer on NextBillion has written blog posts about this new approach to banking. According to John Owens -chief of party for MABS from Chemonics International- m-banking is...
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Let’s Get (BoP Businesses) Started in Here: Doing Business 2008 Released
NextBillion ally Chris Monasterski, editor of the excellent PSD Blog, wrote me a short e-mail this evening alerting me to the release of the 2008 Doing Business rankings.? This year marks the fifth edition of the annual rankings, which measures the ease of doing business in 178 countries...
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Interview With David Bornstein and Other Thoughts
"In the face of this new reality, an increasing number of forward-looking nonprofits are beginning to appreciate the increased revenue, focus and effectiveness that can come from adopting “for profit” business approaches. Increasingly, they are reinventing themselves as social...
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Guest Post: Africa Needs Entrepreneurial Infrastructure
Guest blogger Andrew Mack is the Founder and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting, and a former World Bank official. He blogs at Andy’s Global View and can be reached at: contact@amglobal.com By Andrew Mack In his piece last month about “incremental infrastructure", Ethan...
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Jobs/Careers: Penn State Tenure Track Faculty Positions
Two faculty positions are open at Penn State - Delaware County University for Management Faculty.? The Assistant Professor candidates (one in Management, one in Marketing) will have the proper academic backgrounds, but Professor Raed Elaydi tells NextBillion that an interest in BoP research...
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Guest Post: Dr. Nancy Landrum on “Advancing the BoP Debate”
Dr. Nancy E. Landrum is Associate Professor of strategic management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.? Her teaching, research, and consulting expertise are in strategic management, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.? Dr. Landrum received her Ph.D. from New Mexico...
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Thoughts on the “Next Generation” Conference: Bringing Microfinance Down to Earth
Wrap-up from the IFC-CGAP-Visa conference: Next Generation - Access to Finance ??With our mobile commerce partnership in Japan, we?ve turned cell phones into wallets!? I paraphrase one of the morning presentations on the possibilities of mobile banking. ?You can store money on your...
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