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Development by the BOP for the BOP: Why Pro Mujer is Better Than FairTrade
Mr Vasquez has come with friends from his village in a remote part of Cajamarca, a department in Peru?s northern highlands, to pick coffee in the Moyobamba region on the edge of the jungle?He and his co-workers work from 6am to 4.30pm, for which they are paid 10 soles a day (about $3) ?...
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Rising Ventures: What to Do With Your Lights in Brazil
Wrapping up another work week, I?ll leave you with another excellent emerging economy SME that is creatively meeting new market needs while achieving environmentally beneficial outcomes.? One of our New Ventures folks, Kelly Desy, recently interviewed an entrepreneur who saw plenty of money...
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Lemelson-MIT Awards Sustainable Invention and Innovation
Fans of technical and sustainable innovation, take note - the Lemelson-MIT Awards are coming up again. For those who don?t know, the awards recognize inventors’ impact on economic and social well-being - to the tune of $500,000 (technology), $100,000 (sustainability), or $30,000 (student...
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Learning From Failure: How to Make a Successful Business and a Sustainable Industry
"Some people think I’m crazy.” These were the words of Alexandre Wainberg as quoted by The Estado de Sao Paulo last Sunday (Article in Portuguese - Subscription required). In an excellent piece detailing the environmental damage and social issues surrounding the aquaculture...
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New Volume Shows Why MFIs Should Be In the Remittances Business
As the flow of remittances has expanded massively in recent years, many in the private sector have taken advantage. While this has positive effects for facilitating formal transactions (rather than, say, having your cousin deliver money by hand), there has not been enough competition to keep...
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Measuring Change: Doing Business 07 Released
You can only change what you measure. Doing Business 2007, just released, offers good evidence of the wisdom of this epigram. Whatever issues you might have with the way the World Bank Group does its work, it would be hard to quarrel with the value they are bringing to business climate...
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Ethan Arpi – Our Intern’s Last Stand
As Labor Day came and went in the United States over the weekend, style-conscious clotheshorses put away their whites in favor of browns, greens, and greys; community pools closed their gates; barbeque grills were sheathed for the season. All are signs that summer has come and gone. We at...
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News Roundup: Much Ado About India
The BOP business news from India brings readers updates on three firms whose names ought to ring a bell - Arvind, Hindustan Lever, and ITC. All three were featured in “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” and have been the subject of case studies, speeches, articles, and much...
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