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Major Investments Open New Markets for Water Services
WaterHealth International (WHI) has recently attracted over $11 million in venture capital from investors including Dow Venture Capital, ICICI Bank, Plebys International LLC, and SAIL Venture Partners, L.P.. WHI provides innovative business solutions to one of the world’s most desperate...
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NESsT ? Teaching NGOs to Serve the Poor Sustainably
It?s a classic non-profit problem: organizations find themselves bowing to the needs of their funders rather than their constituents. And of course, there is never enough funding. NESsT is taking an innovative and holistic approach that helps nonprofits increase their long-term viability and...
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Book and Blog Reviews – To Read and Not To Read
For many suburbanites, success is sometimes measured by one’s ability to keep up with the Joneses.? For me, the clich? changes only slightly ? to keeping up with the Christines.? My friend and colleague Christine Bowers of the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog has an...
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Community Engagement Spurs Innovative Program for Day Laborers
Montgomery County in Maryland is struggling with community backlash from efforts to provide employment structures and services to day laborers. According to yesterday?s Washington Post, city officials are hoping to eventually alleviate the tension by training workers to run their own...
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BOP Strategy in Action – Lessons from Hutchinson-Essar
An article in last Friday?s International Herald Tribune details the business strategy behind frenzied takeover bids for Indian mobile phone company Hutchinson-Essar by Vodafone, Reliance, Essar, and others.? Further into the article, writer Anand Giridharadas describes the BOP strategies of...
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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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