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Grassroots Business Initiative Grows Tall
I attended an all-day workshop at the IFC yesterday on their Grassroots Business Initiative (GBI). A half dozen of the Initiative’s enterprises from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and 30 or so GBI partners also attended, along with their program staff. The meeting was conducted under...
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2007 Socially Responsible Business Plan Awards
Aram Kang is Program Coordinator for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at WRI.? Originally from Seoul, Korea, Aram holds an MEM from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. By Aram Kang This past Friday, April 13th, WRI hosted the William James Foundation?s 4th Annual...
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How Will eBay Affect Peer to Peer Lending?
Microcapital reports (via Auctionbytes) that eBay has moved into the peer-to-peer lending space with the purchase of MicroPlace.? This is significant because eBay is far from the first to enter this space - which is currently dominated by Kiva, Zopa, and Prosper. How will a big company like...
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Women at the BOP
In my old age I?ve come to understand that points of ideological contention can be very eye-opening. My friend Akwasi and I considered each other relatively liberal, like-minded urbanites until we had the ?gender role? conversation. Yes, that one ?the quintessential Mars/Venus debate....
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Intel’s World Ahead Program – Event Today in DC
Sorry for the late notice, but if you don’t have lunch plans today and are in or around Washington, try to swing over to DuPont Circle for what promises to be a fascinating talk. Jeffery Galinovsky (of Intel’s Emerging Markets Platform Group) will present World Ahead, an Intel program...
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BOP Job Announcement – WRI and NextBillion
WRI’s Development Through Enterprise team (also known as the NextBillion staff) has an immediate opening for a full-time, paid intern.? This position will be responsible for research and writing assignments documenting the intersection between business and development.? As you know, we...
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News Roundup: Good Capital and The $2000 Car
An assortment of BOP-related news stories came out over the weekend (or over the last week or so).? Some are longer than others - particularly well-written are the two Forbes stories on Good Capital and Tata Motors. First, my friend Kevin Jones was profiled in Forbes late last week.? Kevin,...
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Making the BOP Case at Georgetown, USAID
Yesterday, I had the privilege of introducing our BOP market report, The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid, to nearly 100 people at the US Agency for International Development. The day before, I did the same for a more academic audience at the Mortara...
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