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Hot Topic: Mobile Phones and Africa
Mobile phones? impact in Africa has been a hot topic of late, on NextBillion and around the blogosphere. The Washington Post recently got into the game with an excellent article, ?In War-Torn Congo, Going Wireless to Reach Home,? that received front-page status in the well-read Sunday...
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Green Fuel Has a Dirty Little Secret
Thanks to President Bush, there is nothing more patriotic these days than looking for ways to end America?s oil addiction. So when I came across this article, Tapping the Latent Power in What’s Left Around the Barnyard, while perusing the New York Times on the 4th of July, I knew I had...
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Consumer Credit Hits Brazil
For someone like Marcia Regina da Cruz, a Brazilian janitor who earns just over $150 per month, grocery shopping is a painfully difficult task.? What this mother of three can buy to feed her children is almost always determined by the amount of spare change she can muster on a given day.? So...
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It’s Hard Out Here For a Shrimp
Organic aquaculture is admittedly not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of hot sectors, but the work being done by Primar is not about the latest IT trend or fashionable stock pick, it’s about slowly but decisively attempting to change the way an industry functions. Much...
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“All The News That’s Fit To Print”
Here?s the skinny on BOP news in the Blogosphere:?Nicholas Deleon of Gizmodo.com writes about a $150 laptop that will soon be sold in rural China and South East Asia. Unlike Negroponte?s version, the personal computer discussed here will not have a hand crank but will be powered by a...
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Can Those $100 Laptops Be Recycled?
?Closing the digital divide? has become a mantra echoed throughout the development community. And for good reason; the most innovative technologies like solar panels, cell phones, and computers have been utilized by the BOP to generate greater income and economic opportunity. But as...
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Review: The Giving Back Awards
As I waited for my bagel to toast yesterday, I noticed the latest Newsweek perched in the WRI magazine rack. Normally, I flip to the Perspectives page, then to the Last Word column, and I?m done. Not this time. The cover story, ?The Giving Back Awards,? piqued my interest and won out,...
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Great Innovation: The Brazilian Waterless Car Wash
? If you have ever?gotten service at a car wash?in Brazil, you know that many of them make up the phenomenon Hernando DeSoto calls dead capital. They operate outside of the formal economy, paying low wages off the books, skipping out on taxes and side-stepping regulations. This is the...
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