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The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of MIT?s Poverty Action Lab, published a working paper back in October 2006 called The Economic Lives of the Poor. I am not usually one to urge an economics paper on anyone, but I will break from tradition here. Print this paper, take it home this...
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Outsourcing the Outsourcing ? Profits for People?s new idea for rural India
Taking a page from Thomas Friedman?s The World is Flat, a group of business students in India are piloting a new idea to share some of the data processing wealth of India?s urban centers with its villagers. The team, Profits for People (also known as ProGreen), has developed a model whereby...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Lauren Abendschein
The Development Through Enterprise and NextBillion.net team is happy to welcome Lauren Abendschein to WRI.? Lauren will be working with us for 5 weeks - the length of Oberlin College’s winter term.? She will graduate from Oberlin with a B.Mus. this spring and finish up her B.A. in...
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News Roundup: Worldwide Momentum for BOP Projects
Recent stories from around the world highlight different aspects of the BOP theory in action ? and all are collected in our BOP Newsroom.? A selection of some of the latest BOP news:ADB Approves $320m Loan to Pakistan for IT and Financial ServicesAn ADB loan package totaling US$320...
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Harvard Social Enterprise Conference 2007
Harvard Business School will be holding its annual Social Enterprise Conference on March 4th. So far there are 17 tentatively scheduled panels including topics such as: Microfinance; Global Healthcare; and The Mobile Phone Revolution. Speakers include Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green,...
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Rising Ventures: Beijing Shenwu – The Future of Business in China?
The Chinese government is apparently getting serious about supporting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within its borders. This is perhaps part grudging acknowledgement of the country’s thriving, homegrown private sector and part proactive attempt to reap the benefits of...
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NextBillion Holiday – Back January 2
With the NextBillion team scattered far and wide this holiday season, we’re going to be off-line until January 2.? Any comments posted between now and then will be dropped into a moderation queue - which I hope to review while I’m away - but don’t count on seeing them until...
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BOP Job Announcement – Endeavor
According to its mission statement, Endeavor transforms the economies of emerging markets by identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs.? You may remember that Endeavor was recognized by Fast Company as a Social Capitalist Award winner (one of the better choices, in my opinion).?...
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