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  • Rob Katz

    Building Opportunity for the Majority: Day Two

    The second day of ?Building Opportunity for the Majority? had an inauspicious beginning: I was told no coffee would be allowed into the auditorium, a change from the previous day?s policy and a potential threat to my productivity. The threat was averted by something much more powerful...

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  • Ethan Arpi

    Sugarcoating Petroleum’s Future

    With skyrocketing gas prices and dwindling supplies of oil, many energy experts have turned their attention to Brazil and its thirty year initiative to develop alternative sources of energy. Now former President Bill Clinton has joined the rank of those who see Brazil as a pioneer in this...

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  • Ethan Arpi

    Mass Transit That Works

    In grassroots politics, Porto Alegre is best known for participatory budgeting, a practice in which councils of city residents, and not political fat cats, decide how to allocate municipal funds. The success of this practice in rooting out corruption was a watershed event in local politics...

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  • Courtland Walker

    Building Opportunity for the Majority: Quotes (Day One)

    "I compare vaccines to water. I compare vaccines to education.” -Jean R. Stephenne, President, Biologicals, GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium “When you request 100-200 million units, you’re able to influence corporate strategy.” -Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One...

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  • Rob Katz

    Building Opportunity for the Majority: Day One

    I attended the Inter-American Development Bank?s ?Building Opportunity for the Majority? conference today ? a 2-day event serving as a launching pad for newly-elected Bank president Luis Alberto Moreno?s personal agenda. If Day One of the conference was any indication, Bank-watchers...

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  • Ethan Arpi

    Diabetes and Development

    Morbidly obese boys and girls who slurp down 20oz sodas after consuming their prepackaged, plastized lunches are the poster children, so to speak, of the diabetes epidemic that is ravaging the United States. But other countries, especially those in the developing world, are no longer immune to...

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  • Ethan Arpi

    USAID’s Microfinance Conference

    In the last several days we have talked a lot about our mapping project for the Inter-American Development Bank?s upcoming conference, ?Building Opportunity for the Majority.? But as important as this conference is for the BOP, it should not overshadow other equally important events that...

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  • Ethan Arpi

    BOP and The New Face of Consumerism

    In an article published last month in the New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker explains how a group of hipsters are challenging consumerism by actually participating in it. As Walker reports, those who find a corporation?s business practices morally odious have turned to socially responsible...

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