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Tomorrow’s Company
What will tomorrow?s companies look like? What impact, if any, will innovation blowback have? PSDBlog?s Michael Jarvis points to a new effort, called Tomorrow?s Global Company, that attempts to arrive at some answers: Now, a UK-based think tank, Tomorrow?s Company, has teamed with...
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Enterprises on the Move
If I?m not scouring obscure newspapers for BOP related stories, staring aimlessly off into space, clipping my toe nails, or thinking about integrating a word like phallogocentrism into a blog about microfinance, then chances are I?m adding new activities to Nextbillion?s activity...
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BOP Learning Lab India
The BOP Learning Lab, an on-the-ground research project run through Cornell?s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, will soon have an Indian arm. NextBillion ally Reuben Abraham (photo) reports on his Zoo Station weblog: I have a joint appointment with the Cornell Center for...
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Commitment to (Private Sector) Development
How do you determine a country?s commitment to international development?? I wouldn?t know where to start, but thankfully, researchers at the Washington, DC-based Center for Global Development have published an index to help us sort it out.? The Commitment to Development Index, published...
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India’s Amul Dairy Cooperative
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Times reported that over 100,000 cooperatives have been formed in Venezuela in the last year, forming ?the centerpiece of President Hugo Chavez’s new socialist model to create jobs and redistribute this oil-rich country’s wealth.? By providing tax...
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Response to “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid”
Dr. Aneel Karnani has posted a critique of Professor Prahalad?s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and its thesis?as Karnani describes it?that multi-nationals will enrich themselves and the poor by participating in the base of the pyramid (BOP) market. Karnani describes this...
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Rising Ventures: Linax As the Anti-Body Shop
Continuing discussions of “eco-chic,” I’m turning this week to another Brazilian company, Linax, that works with perfume and oil ingredients. Of course the concept of sustainable cosmetics is hardly original, but the sector deserves a little good news after having been ravaged by...
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PEOPLink Ensures Cash Remittances Will Go ?ParaMiPueblo(.com)?
Is it my imagination or are targeted remittances the next leap in private sector-led development? Enterprises large and small like SMART Communications and FirstMile Solutions have considered implementing programs to tap into this over $170 billion a year industry. But one local NGO, PEOPLink,...
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