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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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Leaders in the Field Weigh in on the Future of Microfinance (I)
The Center for Global Development?s (CGD) event this morning, Eyes beyond the Prize: Envisioning the Next Thirty Years of Microfinance, offered diverse and fascinating perspectives on the future of microfinance. This post will be done in installments to capture the wide breadth of ideas...
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Guest Post: On Africa’s Development Compass, All Arrows Point Toward Rwanda
By Jeremy M. Goldberg and Andrew MackJeremy M. Goldberg is the Director of Communications for AMGlobal Consulting; Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting. They blog at Andy’s Global View. Rwanda?! There it was again, the same puzzled look ?...
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