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Can Public and Private Sectors Work Together for the Poor?
Whilediscussing examples specific to GMOs and other agriculture technology, this paper addresses the broader question: are public-private partnerships (PPPs) simply a new development fad or apromising approach to achieving advances for the poor?Thearticle points out that while...
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More from Tallberg
The Conference ended this afternoon, and I just returned from a gala concert held in an old quarry about 30 minutes bus ride from here.? Quite a spectacular setting.? The Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra, two large singers, with a finale of Handel’s Water Music with fireworks.? Nice.Being too tired...
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Report from the Tallberg Forum
Tallberg, Sweden. Monday August 1, 7:10 pmYour intrepid correspondent is pulling tough duty by a lake three hours northwest of Stockholm, attending a conference (badly) titled “How on earth can we live together?” The conference, organized by the Tallberg Forum...
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Helping Immigrants Better Help those they Left Behind
"The motive of immigrants is to come here, get a job and to work hard and send money back home to support their family"- Atsumasa Tochisako, the chief executive of Microfinance International CorporationThe New York Times quoted Mr. Tochisako in the article “Entrepreneurs Cater...
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Housing for the Poor
A fewinnovative examples of initiatives providing low-cost housing made their wayacross my desk in the last 24 hours, which I took as a sign that I should sharethem with the NB.net community. Somehave been shared before, but are worth mentioning again.The firstis a South African...
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Greater Social Role for Business than Just Selling to the Poor
BOP-oriented businesses have the potential to become a powerfultransformative force in low-income countries, but businesses have other rolesto perform that could both solve social problems and serve their self-interest.Consider this article from The Economist, ?Business and...
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Can MNCs succeed at the BOP? Thoughts from the BELL Conference
I’m at the BELL Conference at Cornell University, and just came out of the Sustainable Innovation for Incumbents discussion, which addressed the challenges MNCs face when creating sustainable global enterprises, including those that tackle the BOP market.? The two main obstacles identified...
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Business Plan Competition for BOP Business Models
NCDO, a Dutch civil society organization, has launched The Business in Development Challenge, a business plan competition for profitable ideas that fight poverty. Although the first competition ended last June, the website claims that the NCDO Director has committed to relaunching the...
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