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Karnani: Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Aneel Karnani, the Michigan strategy professor and controversial author of “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid", has a new article in the Summer edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.? “Microfinance Misses Its Mark” examines some of the failures of microfinance,...
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BOP in Bogota – Conference This Week
I realize I’ve been pretty quiet on NextBillion lately.? Thankfully Derek, Tayo, Nitin, Al, Bill, and Julia have picked up a ton of slack and are writing fantastic pieces. One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet lately is simply that I haven’t been around much.? Between work...
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Rising Ventures: Suminter Makes “Satva” a Sustainable Business Proposition
Suminter India Organics was founded on the philosophy that fair, transparent business practices and high-quality products would provide part of a blended value business model that would generate benefits for local farmers while penetrating a significant and growing market for organic goods. ...
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Rising Ventures: Conserve HRP’s BoP Bags Make a Sustainable Fashion Statement
Conserve HRP caters to the “fashion with a conscience” crowd by marketing chic hand-made accessories crafted from recycled materials. Conserve employs 300 under-served laborers, mostly women, who acquire the disposed materials and create bags and belts that are sold in...
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Domestic BoP: Models for Addressing Underserved Markets
The authors of Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets outline strategies for accessing both domestic and international BoP markets. More specifically, they examine the ways in which companies can engage with “underserved markets” using five ?success factors? that they...
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Report from Tokyo: The Next 4 Billion now in Japanese
The World Bank has translated The Next 4 Billion into Japanese, and the Bank held a launch event in Tokyo, May 23. “The World Bank Tokyo Office is pleased to make this important research available to a broad audience in Japan,” said Lester Dally, World Bank Acting Special...
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Risk Capital for the BOP: Thoughts on TIE and Acumen Fund
Following famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to the speaker?s podium at the huge annual conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIEcon 2007) was interesting. First, some of the audience decided it was time to go to lunch. More interesting was the unexpected similarity of what we both had to...
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Guest Post: Let’s Build an Africa TechCorps
Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting; Jeremy M. Goldberg is the Director of Communications for AMGlobal. They blog at Andy’s Global View.By Andrew Mack with Jeremy M. GoldbergAll over Africa, there is a significant realization that tech is the...
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