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Commitment to (Private Sector) Development
How do you determine a country?s commitment to international development?? I wouldn?t know where to start, but thankfully, researchers at the Washington, DC-based Center for Global Development have published an index to help us sort it out.? The Commitment to Development Index, published...
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India’s Amul Dairy Cooperative
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Times reported that over 100,000 cooperatives have been formed in Venezuela in the last year, forming ?the centerpiece of President Hugo Chavez’s new socialist model to create jobs and redistribute this oil-rich country’s wealth.? By providing tax...
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Response to “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid”
Dr. Aneel Karnani has posted a critique of Professor Prahalad?s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and its thesis?as Karnani describes it?that multi-nationals will enrich themselves and the poor by participating in the base of the pyramid (BOP) market. Karnani describes this...
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Rising Ventures: Linax As the Anti-Body Shop
Continuing discussions of “eco-chic,” I’m turning this week to another Brazilian company, Linax, that works with perfume and oil ingredients. Of course the concept of sustainable cosmetics is hardly original, but the sector deserves a little good news after having been ravaged by...
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PEOPLink Ensures Cash Remittances Will Go ?ParaMiPueblo(.com)?
Is it my imagination or are targeted remittances the next leap in private sector-led development? Enterprises large and small like SMART Communications and FirstMile Solutions have considered implementing programs to tap into this over $170 billion a year industry. But one local NGO, PEOPLink,...
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The Birth of the Microfinance Fund
Next year microfinance celebrates its 30th birthday (Of course, that depends on who you ask). Beginning when Dr. Muhammad Yunus, an American trained economist from Bangladesh, experimented by lending money to 42 women so that they could buy bamboo for making and selling stools, microfinance...
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Oasis or Mirage?
Many of you have noticed that Professor Aneel Karnani’s post, Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid, has remained at the top of NextBillion.net’s home page for the last 48 hours or so. This is no technical glitch - the moderators made an editorial decision to let it stick there for a day...
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Using Business to Fight Malaria
Over a month ago, we covered a New York Times article on Billiton and its six year effort fighting malaria in Mozambique.? Now it has come to my attention that The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Harvard?s School of Public Health, has released a paper, Business and Malaria: A...
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