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Private Sector Finance and SME Development
Thanks to a commenter?s suggestion from Munyaradzi Musamba, I checked out a new report from InfoDev about the role of private sector finance in small- and medium-sized enterprise development. The report, Scaling Up Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: The Role of Private...
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Muhammad Yunus Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus, who developed the idea of microfinance and later founded the Grameen Bank, is the 2006 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is not his first peace prize. The Wikipedia entry is already updated to reflect today?s news; I suspect the mainstream media will be saturated with...
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Rising Ventures: Berni Labs offers alternatives for Mexico’s low-income farmers
The crop duster crashing and dumping pesticides into the Los Mochis water supply was bad enough. But when a warehouse blaze released toxic agrochemicals into the air, causing respiratory illnesses among farmers and their families in the area, Jorge Berni knew there had to be a better way. ...
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The Role of IT in International Development – Upcoming E-Conference
What role do information technologies play in economic development? We?ve been trying to answer that question ever since the Digital Dividends conference way back in 2002, first as an IT-focused research team and now as Development through Enterprise and NextBillion.net. There are no simple...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Seema Patel
We?re happy to introduce Seema Patel, who has joined the NextBillion.net team as a part-time intern.? When she?s not working with us here at WRI, Seema is a senior project manager at ITF consulting.? She received her master?s degree in International Relations and Environmental Policy...
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Wharton’s Africa Business Forum
The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania will convene a 1-day conference on November 11 in Philadelphia. Africa: Building New Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy features panel sessions on a slew of NextBillion-related topics: consumer goods, private equity,...
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StartingBloc: Inside Edition
Q. What do young social innovators do for fun? A. Hang out at StartingBloc?s fall seminar, of course. About two months ago, while I was waiting for a phenomenally delayed plane at the Dulles Airport, I picked up a copy of the summer edition of Fast Company. Beyond the excellent article...
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LifeStraw Catching On
With more than a few mentions on NextBillion during its development, it was nice to see LifeStraw covered in today’s New York Times.The LifeStraw sells for $3, is approximately the size of a paper towel tube (i.e. 25cm long by 29mm in diameter), and filters out 99.99% of bacteria, the...
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