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Google.org: Fuel the Growth of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Both the New York Times and Emeka Okafor’s Timbuktu Chronicles point out Google.org’s newly-announced philanthropic commitment to small and medium-sized enterprises. From the Google.org web site: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical for creating more equitable...
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Emerging-Market Multinationals: BoP or Not?
The January 10th edition of the Economist takes note, in two separate pieces, of the huge successes of a handful of large MNCs. It highlights how these firms have successfully shaken up their industries and acquired well-known brands in their efforts to capture large swaths of global market...
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Africa Misrepresented ? What Does it Mean for the BoP?
William Easterly, respected for his contributions to the development debate and widely know for his opposition to the Jeff Sachs camp, recently published an interesting piece entitled How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa. The article reveals specific statistical...
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How To Succeed at the BoP: Know Your Customer
Today I’d like to highlight what I see as a frequently occurring theme in BoP business models, and an element that could make it or break it for companies that look to target BoP markets. Entrepreneurship is often cited as the critical component for small and medium-scale enterprises,...
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Global Social Benefit Incubator: A $20,000 BoP Scholarship
Santa Clara University is known in social entrepreneurial circles for its work helping to organize and judge the Tech Museum Awards ? a showcase for social entrepreneurs, mostly from developing countries. Less well-known about the school is the Global Social Benefit Incubator, run by SCU?s...
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What?s GOOD: Incubating, Disseminating and Commercializing Appropriate Technology at the BoP
I am sure that few of you are strangers to Amy Smith?s work at MIT?s D-Lab. After all, the D-Lab has been profiled several times here at NextBillion, most recently in an article featured in the news room via GOOD magazine. The article aptly describes D-Lab?s current crop of appropriate...
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Passing the Bucks ? A BoP Market Looking for Some Action?
"I’m giving away 2 percent of my net income every month... I don’t think Bill Gates is doing that.” So says Turkish billionaire Husnu M. Ozyegin in an interview for a New York Times piece last Friday about the philanthropy of individuals who have recently achieved phenomenal...
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Will Greed Save Africa?
Some NextBillion readers may have noticed a rather provocatively titled piece that appeared recently as the cover article for BusinessWeek: “Can Greed Save Africa?” What a way to cut to the chase! The article probably makes most development and aid activists squirm. After all,...
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