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Event: Microfinance in the Next Thirty Years
The Center for Global Development (CGD) is hosting an event next Wednesday entitled Eyes beyond the Prize: Envisioning the Next Thirty Years of Microfinance. The talk will look at critical issues for microfinance institutions including: What changes will technology bring? Which new products...
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Fewer Celebrities, More BOP at Davos
The news from the start of the World Economic Forum this year is full of stories from climate change to hedge funds to a dearth of celebrities- interspersed with the occasional obligatory discussion of poverty. Yet hints that the world?s economic and political powerhouses are starting to take...
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Upcoming Conference: Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid
The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University will be hosting a conference entitled ?Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid.? The conference brings together BOP...
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Rwanda Journal: Dear Dave,
Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series.? This is the second post in the series; read the first here. In reference to David’s...
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The Most Important Businesses You’ve Never Heard Of (Until Now)
I suppose “alternative energy” and “China” are indeed like peanut butter and chocolate, as Matt Richtel of the NYT analogizes. At first glance the combination seems incompatible (the word China to me for a long time conjured up images of massive coal power plants, not wind...
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BOP Spoofed by The Onion
How do you know when a person, idea, or trend has truly arrived? When it gets spoofed by The Onion. In today’s edition of the well-read parody and satire magazine, the lead article is entitled Chanel Develops Durable, Low-Cost Perfume For Third World. This is an obvious stab at the...
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Social Entrepreneurs Summit
Want to keep track of what’s going on in Switzerland this week?? Many will undoubtedly be following the glitzy World Economic Forum, but allow me to suggest an alternate: the Social Entrepreneurs Summit.? Also sponsored by the Schwab Foundation and held concurrently with the Forum, the...
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Prodem Sold to Venezuela Under a Cloud of Intrigue, Irony
Prodem, the 3rd largest microbank in Bolivia and a long-time BOP success story known for its home-grown smart ATMs, now finds itself at the center of a political-economic power struggle between Bolivia and Venezuela.? Yes, the socialist/populist governments of Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez are...
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