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Doing Business Meets Google Maps
We’ve talked a lot about the excellent Doing Business reports that the World Bank Group produces every year.? A quick reminder: The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175...
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The Next 4 Billion – Innovations Article
In response to some demand from readers and suggest-ers (not a word, I know), I’m posting the article that Al, Bill, Julia, Cory and I wrote in Innovations. Click “read more” for access to the PDF. Here are the first few paragraphs.Full review of the journal coming soon --...
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Case Study Release: Mi Farmacita Nacional
I’m very happy to announce the release of the WRI business case study, What Works: Mi Farmacita Nacional, authored by Enrique Coronado (’08), Christina Krettecos (’07), and Yvonne Lu (’07) of Columbia Business School.Mi Farmacita Nacional, a fully for-profit pharmacy...
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Business in Development Happy Hour – Washington DC
You are invited to a special Networking Happy Hour to support entrepreneur-driven models of development.?? Come learn about leading organizations working to bring innovative, market-based solutions to global poverty.? Network with others committed to unleashing the potential of small...
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Rising Ventures: Florestas – An Authentically Brazilian Company With an Authentically Green Image
New Ventures Intern Jesse Last muses on pub trivia and a conversation with one of the most innovative entrepreneurs in the personal care products market. I got an interesting pub trivia question the other night - what is the body’s largest organ? I promptly shouted “liver” and...
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Biofuels and the BOP
Chris Monasterski over at the PSDBlog connects biofuels, world hunger, and The Next 4 Billion report. Wish I had thought of it! (Seriously, bravo Chris.) Check it out - biofuels are driving food costs up, which puts pressure on BOP budgets. The poor are among those most at risk from the...
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M-Pesa Shows Strong Demand for M-Banking
We’ve known about Vodafone’s M-Pesa project for some time now.? The money-transfer via mobile phone service has been active in Kenya for a few months now, first as a pilot and growing steadily throughout the country. The New York Times and the Economist both have articles on M-Pesa...
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Nubian Cheetah and AIDG’s Haiti Project
A quick roundup before the weekend. First, here’s a new blog to check out: Nubian Cheetah.? Its author, Nii Simmonds, is based here in DC (small world) and was recently a speaker at TED Africa.? Nii posted last week about a conversation he had with George Ayittey (also based here in DC,...
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