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It’s Hard Out Here for a Shrimp Boat Captain
What do shrimp fishermen in Louisiana have in common with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso? Both have suffered serious financial setbacks because of American farm subsidies. And with the breakdown of the Doha Round earlier this week, both will continue to suffer well into the foreseeable...
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Announcing the Rising Ventures Series
Readers of nextbillion may have noticed recently that the company profiles I’ve been blogging on every week have taken on a new theme. This is because the New Ventures program (also part of the World Resources Institute and a partner of nextbillion) decided to make these featured...
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That Catfish Sure Tastes Good
This Saturday the New York Times jumped on the biodiesel bandwagon, publishing this article on Jim Nornman and his experience driving a car powered by vegetable oil.? Here at Nextbillion, we have covered biodiesel and its use in the developing world on two separate occasions?in Rwanda?s...
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’Globalization Comes Full Circle’ – Business Week
In this week?s cover story, Emerging Giants, Business Week explores the phenomenon of ?innovation blowback.? For those of you not familiar with the term?like me only 15 minutes ago?innovation blowback refers to businesses from the developing world that expand into overseas markets...
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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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