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Proverbs at Work: From Burnt-Out Shells to Coffee Machines
While it may seem clich?, I?ve always enjoyed the proverb advising that “when life deals you lemons, make lemonade.” The phrase was my first thought when I saw a recent story out of Ethiopia about Azmarew Zeleke?s burgeoning coffee business; in this case, replace...
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Remittance News Coverage Missing the Mark
I came in today thinking, “wow, what a range of takes on the new World Bank study (pdf) on Latin American remittances released yesterday.” We reported last week on the IADB remittance report and the reaction from CNN and Lou Dobbs, in which an immigration and values debate provided...
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Rwandan coffee to Vegetable oil to Bug repellant?activities of all shapes, sizes, tastes and smell
So much to read, so little time?but these activities are definitely worth a look-over.Berni Labs - Distributing “Bug Balancer” Pest repellant for farmersJorge Berni, a longtime resident of the agriculture-dependent community in Los Mochis, Mexico, was convinced that farmers needed...
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Hunter Lovins, Maria Otero, and Product RED: NetImpact 2006
Sheri Willoughby is a Senior Manager in the Markets and Enterprise Program at WRI. She holds an MS in chemistry from University of California San Diego and a MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Where do MBA students and alumni go to get inspired,...
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Zambia Journal: Industry Woes
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 second in the series; read his previous post here....
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NextBillion 2.0 – Improving Our Community
Since our launch in May 2005, NextBillion.net has remained more or less the same as far as functionality and usability are concerned. Sure, we added the Events Calendar and the Activity Database, but the basic interactions on-site have remained the same.At the same time, we?ve experienced...
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Those Too Poor for Microfinance Look to Trickle Up
What?s a hundred dollars from the perspective of a low-income, base of the pyramid community? That question should be viewed in a new light in the weeks after Muhammad Yunus was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize winner. A hundred bucks? That?s a micro-loan, of course, to be made through...
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Pakistan Ready for Mobile Banking
Last week, I reported on a conference in Pakistan organized by the Asian Development Bank (and in which I played a small role) to catalyze mobile phone banking in that country. The major banks all showed up, and heard the banking regulator tell them to get with the program. Later that same...
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