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Aryty: Productizing Remittances Through Cell Phones
Remittances are a big deal ? from an economic standpoint, a development standpoint, and a business standpoint. A lot has been written about the magnitude and impact of cross-border financial flows, both on NextBillion and elsewhere. The concept of productizing remittances ? sending goods...
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Rising Ventures: Harnessing the Ingenuity of the BoP
Every entrepreneur has a story. Anyone with the wherewithal and acumen to start a business had to have something click at some point - a moment when they saw an unrecognized market opportunity and the perfect product or service to fill that gap. For Tommy Matthew, this moment came from...
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The Moneylender’s Paradox
By NextBillion reader Lance Durham -Borrowers don’t have much collateral.-Little collateral means that they can only get small loans.-Moneylenders make these small loans at very high interest rates.-Very high interest rates mean that borrowers won’t make much profit.-After the...
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Link Drop: News, Reviews, Events, and More
In the interest of time and efficiency, I am going to do an all-purpose link drop today. Some of the topics mentioned below will be fleshed out as blog posts; others will be added to the Activity Database, Events Calendar, or Newsroom. Keep an eye on this space as I try to dig out from under...
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BOP Job Announcement – NextBillion Intern & Lauren’s Last Day
We are happy to announce that we’re hiring an intern to work on NextBillion.net and other research related to the intersection of business and development. The job posting is up on World Resources Institute’s main site - check it out for the full details.The basics: we’re looking...
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Convergence of the Corporate Sector and Civil Society?
C.K. Prahalad has done it again. He?s come up with an idea as radical as his and Stuart Hart’s suggestion 5 years ago that there was significant value to be found in business engagement at the base of the pyramid. With apologies to the musical Oklahoma, what he and co-author Jeb...
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Leaders in the Field Weigh in on the Future of Microfinance (II)
This is the second post on CGD?s event ? check out yesterday?s post to read more. At the Eyes Beyond the Prize event yesterday several major themes emerged: how to keep the spirit of microfinance present as it grows and incorporates external forces like governments, investors, and...
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CK Prahalad on Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact
C.K. Prahalad is at it again. The University of Michigan professor (and - full disclosure - member of WRI’s Board of Directors) has published his 14th article in the Harvard Business Review, out today. Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact, co-authored with consultant Jeb Brugmann,...
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