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New Volume Shows Why MFIs Should Be In the Remittances Business
As the flow of remittances has expanded massively in recent years, many in the private sector have taken advantage. While this has positive effects for facilitating formal transactions (rather than, say, having your cousin deliver money by hand), there has not been enough competition to keep...
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Measuring Change: Doing Business 07 Released
You can only change what you measure. Doing Business 2007, just released, offers good evidence of the wisdom of this epigram. Whatever issues you might have with the way the World Bank Group does its work, it would be hard to quarrel with the value they are bringing to business climate...
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Ethan Arpi – Our Intern’s Last Stand
As Labor Day came and went in the United States over the weekend, style-conscious clotheshorses put away their whites in favor of browns, greens, and greys; community pools closed their gates; barbeque grills were sheathed for the season. All are signs that summer has come and gone. We at...
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News Roundup: Much Ado About India
The BOP business news from India brings readers updates on three firms whose names ought to ring a bell - Arvind, Hindustan Lever, and ITC. All three were featured in “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” and have been the subject of case studies, speeches, articles, and much...
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Is Open Source Hardware An Answer?
You have probably heard of Open Source Software - software developed by hackers and released into the community under licenses that freely allow copying and modification. Linux is a good example.David Rowe, an engineer from Adelaide, South Australia and a small team of hackers around the...
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Rising Ventures: Lotus Qumicia – New Ways to Fight Water Shortages
Bloggin g to wrap up a lazy Sunday evening on a beautiful Labor Day weekend (post Ernesto that is).? Lotus Quimica- this week’s featured company is an interesting case- they also tackle the water issues I touched on earlier in the week, although at first I was a bit aprehensive about their...
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A Call to Journalists: Stop Writing about Microfinance
Everyone agrees that microfinance is the coolest thing since sliced bread.? That?s why in the last two months we?ve seen it covered by the Financial Times, Reuters, The Globalist, The New York Times, The Economist, The LA Times, Business Week, CNN, and The Times of London.? And in all...
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Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise
What do you get when you mix SimCity with social entrepreneurship? Village, a multiplayer strategy game that puts the BOP hypothesis to work. According to the game?s web site, Village?s mission is...to let players practice building sustainable villages for developing nations using...
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