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One ICT in the Philippines Shows Why a BOP Model is Just SMART Business
As I’ve noted before, what is often most fascinating about the work we do is realizing how adaptive the entrepreneurial spirit can be and how given a market with considerably less resources, entrepreneurs in emerging economies are finding creative ways to provide what were previously...
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The Long Tail and the BOP
A lot of people are talking lately about ?The Long Tail,? a concept first put forward by Wired editor Chris Anderson.? (A lot of buzz was generated when his book of the same name was published earlier this month).? The basic idea, as described by Anderson, is that business is...
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How the Other Half Lives
In the late 1800?s, Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant in the United States, set out to document New York City?s teeming tenements on the Lower East Side.? His finished product, How the Other Half Lives, was an immediate success and is now recognized as a canonical work of American...
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NextBillion Interview: Creating Value in Underserved Markets
How much momentum does the ?base of the pyramid? hypothesis have behind it ? and at what point does hope become hype? I recently read Untapped, the latest business/strategy book to discuss underserved markets and their profit potential, with a wary eye ? would it live up to the hope, or...
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PCs for the BOP? GlobalVoices Reviews MiPC
Lost in the ongoing debate about low-cost computers and the digital divide is Argentina?s MiPC (My First Personal Computer) program. Global Voices? David Sasaki nicely summarizes the ongoing debate over MiPC?s technology options (Intel and Microsoft exclusivity vs. AMD and Linux...
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In China, The Sun Also Rises
In Ecclesiastes, the son of David describes the resilience of earth and the futility of human action, explaining that, ?One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.? In the last two decades, ever since China began liberalizing its economy, a new...
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Rising Ventures: AmazonLife Makes Social Responsibility Look Good on the Runway
Mike Jarvis writes in PSD Blog today about the increasing demand for Fairtrade products as a sign of growing consumer trust in the quality and desirability of this relatively new business model. This is news that will not only give Coldplay’s Chris Martin something to talk about in between...
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Low-Wage Jobs Alleviate Poverty
In this Sunday?s Business section of the New York Times, Daniel Gross from Slate Magazine writes about the latest trend in international development: the $2 a day job. He begins his article discussing A to Z Manufacturing, a mosquito bed-netting business from Tanzania that pays its 2,000...
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