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The New Asian Tiger… Indian SMEs? I’d bet $500 billion on it.
For years, we at New Ventures have been encouraging investors and aid organizations to pay attention to the growing numbers of SMEs being created by waves of adventurous entrepreneurs throughout the developing world. I would point to businesses like Aires as shining examples of small, innovative...
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Midwife on line two
When John and Rob aren’t blogging about cellphones improving incomes and health, they’re forwarding news links about...cell phones improving incomes and health. This IHT story (great find by Rob) vividly illustrates just how valuable connectivity is on an individual and village-wide...
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Development without the Dependency
I was just reading through the new issue of Co-Creations, the e-Newsletter by the Kenyan Development Network Consortium (KDNC). Amidst informative articles about sustainable eco-tourism and the current state of ICT development in Kenya is a fascinating piece about the provision of appropriate...
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Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
One of the fundamental principles for business engagement with the ?base of the pyramid? is to take a triple bottom line approach to business model development and evaluation. This approach takes into account environmental and social impacts in addition to ? and in support of ? the...
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Internship Opportunity: Emerging Markets Private Equity Association
Are you a graduate or undergraduate student interested in emerging markets and/or private equity? Want to spend the summer in Washington, D.C.? Well, EMPEA?s got a job for you: the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) is hiring 2 graduate interns and 1 undergraduate intern...
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Progress has wheels
A relative veteran on NextBillion, Grameenphone’s mobile business model set an early standard for innovative service provision. The concept of at-your-door delivery of traditionally unaffordable goods and services --to remote and poor communities also works well with low-cost health care, using...
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This Week: Renewable Energy Fights Poverty, Makes Great Coffee
The New Ventures Entrepreneur of the Week series continues with a feature on the Solar Trade Corporation (STC), a rapidly growing business that sells solar-powered coffee dryers to farmers in Mexico and Central America. For this piece I interviewed VP Richard Trubey, who somehow made a huge...
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Remittances – My Two Cents
Remittances are not a substitute for aid, but their aggregate size encourages positive private sector activity that helps the BOP. This was my first thought when I saw Ignacio?s posting at the Poverty and Growth blog. He quotes the World Bank?s Raj Nallari, who criticizes government...
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