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Emerging Market Private Equity Conference PPTs Available
Just a quick note for those of you who are interested in venture capital / private equity in emerging economies: IFC and EMPEA hosted the 8th Annual Global Private Equity Conference in Washington, DC last week. Three power points are available on EMPEA’s website that have...
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Wi-Fi Phones ? a Piece of the Rural Connectivity Puzzle
Wi-Fi phones are taking off! According to a report by Infonetics Research, the global market for Wi-Fi phones rose 76 percent in 2005 to $102.5 million, and will reach $1.9 billion in 2009. The number of units shipped rose 112 percent last year, and will increase by 158 percent this year. These...
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Divestment in Sudan: A Quandary Quartet
A week ago David Wheeler published an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail in which he argues that it is illogical and even arrogant to call for divestment of Sudan, as have done many activists and scholars, notably Eric Reeves? and Peter Kinder.?...
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Revisit San Francisco in Today’s Wall Street Journal
Attendees of 2004?s Eradicating Poverty Through Profit conference may have only dim memories of the 3-day BOP bonanza (flashes of Scott Shuster, anyone?), but not me. Which brings me to today?s Wall Street Journal, whose front page featured 3 conference speakers in an article entitled...
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GlobalGiving Seeks Projects to Fund
While browsing through the booths at last week?s Development Marketplace (DM), I rediscovered an organization that had been inspired by the competition. GlobalGiving was founded by the same World Bank executives who created the Development Marketplace in 2000. Encouraged by its initial...
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Aavishkaar Wins World Business Award
Aavishkaar, the Indian micro venture capital fund that we?ve profiled on NextBillion and in GreenBiz, has been awarded the World Business Award as one of the top ten business models of the world contributing to the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals. Other winners of the award...
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Another Competition, Another Missed Opportunity
The World Bank?s Development Marketplace (DM) competition took place in Washington this week. Begun in 1998, and held in DC about once every 18 months, DM is ?a competitive grant program that funds innovative, small-scale development projects that deliver results and show potential to be...
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A New Model for Rural Connectivity
What if the ultimate Internet access device turned out to be a phone? Yes, its already happening for a few in the rich world, but I’m talking about access for a billion people or more in the developing world, for which the driver is cost, not convenience. Despite all the efforts to spread...
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