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Guest Post: Maya Nut Trees Make A Comeback in Central America
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Job: Director, Foundation & Corporate Relations, Root Capital
Editor’s Note: NextBillion and Acumen Fund ally Willy Foote dropped us a note - via Brian Trelstad - and asked us to circulate this opening. If you’re interested in Root Capital, be sure to watch their excellent video, which features Willy himself on the guitar. Position: Director,...
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Morning Roundup: Water Privatization and Dignified P2P Lending
There have been some interesting base of the pyramid-related topics afoot in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere lately, including a call for water privatization in developing countries and a self-critical blog post authored by the founder of a media-darling BoP startup. Without...
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“Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor” – An Analysis of the Report
A key issue that the BoP development world currently faces is generating a tangible connection between markets, enterprise and the poor. After all, if we are going to alleviate poverty through enterprise, we require effective strategies that enable the BoP to participate in profitable business...
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Online Mentoring: Can It Go International?
As the search for developing market-based solutions for poverty alleviation continues, adequate entrepreneur training and support has been an ongoing issue. In fact, the Aspen Institute estimates that in the United States, half of the 21.5 million micro-enterprises (capitalized with US $35,000...
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Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o del Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mi
I am glad to announce the release of “Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o de Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mide", the Spanish language version of WRI and IFC’s milestone report “The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Busines Strategy at the Base of...
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Base of the Pyramid Scaling Series Now Online in One Place
A quick announcement for readers who only caught bits and pieces of the sector scaling series we ran last week and others who just want to see all of the commentary in one place - we recently packaged all of the series in PDF format and posted it in our resources section. For those who...
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Guest Post: Local Innovation And Enterprise – The L-RAMP Model
Guest blogger Arun Sharma is Scouting Lead for Innovations at the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-RAMP). He is also a writer for L-RAMP Blog, which explores trends in social enterprise, innovation, technology and poverty alleviation. By Arun Sharma Meet Dr. Venkata...
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