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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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Development Marketplace Blog and HealthStore on PBS
If you’re in Washington DC today and/or tomorrow, be sure to stop by the Development Marketplace event at the World Bank.? For those unable to make it to DC, or stuck in meetings both days (me), don’t fret - there’s a blog!? The Development Marketplace blog, Hot Ideas/Cool...
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Wednesday: A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant – RSVP
Reminder: This is on Wednesday; please RSVP.Ever wondered how you can move into the elusive world of BOP consulting? The DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group is pleased to announce its May meeting, “A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant.” The featured speaker...
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