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The Honey Bee Network: A Reintroduction
If necessity is the mother of all invention, then people living at the base of the pyramid should have plenty of marketable ideas. Anil Gupta, executive chairperson of the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) and the founder of the Honey Bee Network thinks so. For 16 years, he’s been...
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Business and Development: a confused marriage
The Edelman communications and public relations firm recently released “Business and International Development,"a survey of what businesses are expected to contribute to internationaldevelopment and what their responsibilities are. The participantssurveyed were anonymous, but...
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C.K. Prahalad Named a “Best Leader: Guru” by BusinessWeek
Along with colleague Stuart Hart, C.K Prahalad is widely thought of as a godfather of the base of the pyramid hypothesis. We’ve noted before that both Hart and Prahalad are garnering much-deserved recognition for their work in this field (full disclosure: C.K. Prahalad is a member of WRI’s...
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Interview with Thamel.com
WRI’s latest What Works case study, Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development, is now available through the NextBillion.net Case Studies page. The report documents a Nepal-based marketing and development company that has tapped the resources of the diaspora to create new opportunities for...
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RSS Upgrade: Helping you stay plugged into NextBillion.net
Over the past few weeks, we have been working with the NextBillion.net team to upgrade some of this website?s features to make it easier for you to access the content you need. The most recent addition, and probably the most obvious, is the improved RSS integration with NextBillion.net.RSS...
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Global Social Benefit Incubator
I was reminded again this morning by PSD Blog of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, “an intensive two-week residential program that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.” The two-week in-residence program (July 29 - August...
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Cashless Transactions at the BOP: Peppercoin
What do your local Chinese restaurant?s delivery service and MIT?s advanced cryptography department have in common? The answer: Peppercoin, an innovative payment platform allowing consumers to use credit or debit cards for small transactions -- thus eliminating merchants? need for those...
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Following Remittances Around the World
With international remittance flows to the developing world set to top $167bn this year, a newly released report by the United Nations shows that remittanceflows to the African continent, averaging US$17bn per annumbetween 2000 and 2003, havesurpassed Foreign Direct Investment during...
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