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  • Rob Katz

    What’s in a Map?

    For many of us, the combination of economic data plus policy recommendations is the literary equivalent of NyQuil. Unfortunately, good research generally requires the presentation of both data and analysis. So how do we researchers and writers solve this problem? Increasingly, the answer is...

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  • Courtland Walker

    “The Tool to Send Your Money”

    Not an hour after Tuesday’s post on an apparent remittance service offered by The Home Depot, I received an email, from their Media Relations Department, in reply to my request for more information.Here’s what The Home Depot had to say:"On May 8, 2006, The Home Depot launched a...

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  • Derek Newberry

    This Week: Hope for Change in a Troubled Industry

    Proteak?s co-founder, Hector Bonilla is convinced he can defy a deeply engrained and concerning global trend in an extremely problematic sector. He operates within the law, practices responsible forestry and runs a transparent company. This might seem routine, until you consider what he does...

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  • Derek Newberry

    “Poorism” in India – Development Through Enterprise or Lower Class Exploitation?

    Browsing the morning headlines, I came across a startling and at first disturbing trend in the Indian tourism industry.? I had just finished reading a nice article on how the government plans to operate eco-tours of rural Jharkhand when I found a Guardian piece describing one community...

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  • Less smoke, no fire

    About a month ago JP wrote about fuel efficient cookers , but they make me so giddy that I just had to write about them too, with a few fresh examples. ? If you’re new to the concept and hear “fuel efficient cooker,” you’ll probably think “Great! Sounds...

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  • Rob Katz

    BOP Roundup – News and Stories of Note

    As I mentioned yesterday, I?ve been MIA while working on a BOP mapping project that will be publicly unveiled on June 12 at the IADB conference. Side note ? have you seen the speaker list? Cardinal Maradiaga, Carlos Slim, Hernando de Soto, Nicholas Negroponte, Portia Simpson Miller, Bill...

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  • Courtland Walker

    Stop the Bus!

    Riding the 42 to work last week, I was surprised to see a poster advertising a remittance service offered by Home Depot; familiar orange and white logo, copy half written in English, half in Spanish. A multi-national retailer testing the remittances waters? A lure to bring in new customers?...

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  • Rob Katz

    Back From Mapping the BOP

    I?ve had a couple emails from NextBillion readers, wondering why I haven?t been blogging much of late. Despite their pleas to the contrary, I?m back. In all seriousness, I?d like to update you all on why I?ve been so conspicuously absent from these pages. You may remember that the...

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