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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Part 2
This post is a continuation of an interview Nextbillion conducted with Prof. David Wheeler, who recently wrote an insightful piece on how sustainable local enterprise networks can enable bottom-up development at the base of the pyramid. The interview will conclude next week. To read the...
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Report: Private Sector Strategies for Providing Healthcare at the Base of the Pyramid
The role of the private sector in improving the delivery of healthcare in developing countries is still being debated. Although private sector strategies may improve efficiencies and lower costs, some fear that turning healthcare entirely into a consumer service will marginalize the poor even...
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HealthStore Case Study Details Franchise Approach to Healthcare
WRI’s latest What Works case study, HealthStore’s Franchise Approach to Healthcare - Harnessing the profit motive to deliver public health in Kenya, is now available at the NextBillion.net Resources page. The 43-page case study, written by Columbia University MBA students, outlines how a...
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Soweto TV: Reaching 4 Million in South Africa
Today the South African Mail & Guardian featured an article on the launch of Soweto TV, a community television station that is designed to train and empower locals to produce news that reflects their reality. Much like, TV Rocinha that was featured at WRI’s Base of the Economic Pyramid...
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Fixing MFI Flaws to reach the poorest poor
There have been many criticisms of microfinance as an ineffective way of reaching out to the poorest of the poor. The problems cited:-MFIs deliberately avoid the poorest whom they believe can never repay loans-loans that would help the poorest would be too small to be profitable even for...
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A New Model for Success at the BOP: Interview with David Wheeler, Part 1
Multinational companies (MNCs) have a significant role to play in private sector strategies aimed at benefiting markets at the base of the pyramid (BOP). From a development perspective however, the role of local actors, especially indigenous small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), may be...
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Healthcare Delivery: World Class Services
This is the final post in my series on financially sustainable models that provide high quality healthcare to the poor. A compilation of all posts will be available to download as a PDF next week.Healthcare for the poor is typically regarded as substandard, and it sometimes is. But a...
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How Important is Scaling Up? Debate from TBLI
WorldChanging’s Nicole Anne Boyer was able to attend the 7th Triple Bottom Line Investment (TBLI) conference in Frankfurt a few weeks back. Her thorough reporting from the event is a must-read for folks interested in socially responsible investment and its associated spin-offs (including...
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