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Upending the Pyramid: Measuring Success at the BoP
I just finished reading Freakonomics, the NY Times Bestseller written by ?rogue economist? Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. It?s about using economic thinking and data analysis to answer practical questions and challenge conventional wisdom. Truly, there is nothing I love...
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Article Slams $3000 “People’s Car”
Ironically, as Nitin posted his piece on the $3000 1-lakh car, I came across this article, Just What Overcrowded, Polluted India Didn’t Need - The $3000 Car, in The Independent. Well, we never said it wasn’t controversial. In fact, the whole thing gives me pause. On the one hand,...
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Small Car Activity
There has been considerable enthusiasm - including on Nextbillion.net - about Tata’s much hyped Rs. 100,000 car. Nextbillion post - India’s Model T: Tata’s $2000 car out by 2008 - has been on the Most Popular list of posts for as long as I can remember! While some are...
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Entrepreneurialization of Government
Something that has consistently bothered me since I began exploring the “business for social good” continuum is the notion (implied, but not often stated), that the government has been usurped as the primary provider of public goods. Government has failed and private enterprise must...
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Introducing Ella Delio
The NextBillion.net team and the World Resources Institute are pleased to introduce Ella Delio as a Senior Associate working with the Markets and Enterprise program (which includes NextBillion.net). Ella has 8 years of relevant experience in enterprise and private sector development....
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The Delight of d.light Design
I have a chronic habit of seeking out cool people. Can?t help it; it?s just what I do. A few months ago, I asked one of my friends, a Stanford Graduate School of Business grad, to e-introduce me to a then second year student. We exchanged ideas and information, a process that always...
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TED Global — Cheetahs or Hippos?
That TED Global came and went without so much as a whisper here on NextBillion.net is a shame.? The curator, Emeka Okafor, is a friend and also the mind behind Timbuktu Chronicles, a must-read for those of us in the BOP set.? How could I miss reporting on his major conference? Thankfully,...
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Update on Comments
For those of you who have been watching the site, you know that comments were temporarily disabled on the site last week because of a spam attack. Commenting is back on now for everyone, so please comment away... We’ll be keeping an eye on the site to help keep it this way. Happy...
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