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Global Giving Olympics
Saima Zaman, a former colleague of mine, sent me a note the other day to tell me about her latest project: the Global Giving Olympics. For the next 3 weeks, project leaders at Global Giving will compete for cash prizes ? whoever mobilizes the most support receives a windfall bonus. This...
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Development Marketplace 2007
Just around the corner is the deadline for entries to the World Bank Development Marketplace 2007 competitive grant program. This year, approximately $4 million is available for awards of $50-200K to projects that are “improving results in health, nutrition and population for the...
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Jobs in BOP-related Organizations
Every once in a while, we receive queries about job opportunities with us or organizations with a similar focus on market-based development strategies. Here’s a roundup of openings that might catch your eye. If you have an opening you would like to advertise on NextBillion, please contact...
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Shame on CNN: Remittances Become Political
I attended the press conference Wednesday, at which the new findings on remittances. Interviews with 2500+ migrants in the US, the IADB (research by Bendixen & Associates) give us a statistically valid picture of the dimensions of US-LAC remittances, and the IADB concludes that the number...
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Check out what’s new in the activity database…
I’ve recently been reading through some past blogs, keeping a keen and curious eye out for activities to add to NextBillion’s activity database...care to see what I found? Some very interesting, and of course worthwhile projects...ZENUFA Laboratories - TanzaniaZenufa, a pharmaceutical...
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News Roundup: Tierney, Hubbard, HP Suggest BOP Mainstream
Mainstream media coverage of the intersection between business and poverty has been strong of late, undoubtedly catalyzed by Yunus winning the Peace Prize last week.? Three stories ? two from National Public Radio and one from the New York Times ? bear special mention here on NextBillion....
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Zambia Journal: Lusaka’s Consumer Culture
Guest blogger Brian McBrearity will be reporting from time to time about his experiences working in Zambia on SME and financial services development. His Zambia Journal posts will appear about once a week here on NextBillion.net. This is the first in the series.I am not a development expert,...
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Is the Hundred Dollar Laptop a Real Business?
It was reported last week that Nicolas Negoponte and Libya reached an agreement to supply 1.2 million of the $100 computers to Libyan schoolchildren for $250 million. I was intrigued by the agreement, the math for which points up one of the problems with the effort - the computer itself may...
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