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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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Hugo Chavez and the Bottom of the Pyramid: Overcoming “Utopia”
Usually, I stand by the belief that bringing politics into development discussions is a recipe for disaster for anyone ? be they journalist, blogger, development planner or, above all, the target “beneficiary.” Today, however, I can?t resist pointing to the political events in...
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SMEs Redefining Innovation: Insights on the New Ventures India Investor Forum
At first glance, the lineup of products and services on display at this year’s New Ventures India Investor Forum seemed to reflect traditional Indian knowledges and practices. Banana-leaf materials, light posts, and packaged Indian foods were some of the offerings on display by entrepreneur...
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Acumen Fund Launches New Web Site, Fellows Blog
Time to update your RSS feeds: Acumen Fund has launched a new, RSS-compatible web site (the site is a re-design of their previous effort).? In addition to being syndication-friendly, the new site is rich with stories, photos, videos and lots of dynamic content.? I like how they’ve...
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Are We Making a Difference? Measuring the Social and Environmental Impacts of Small and Medium Ente
Guest blogger Mareike Hussels is Latin America Manager for New Ventures. Prior to joining WRI, Mareike worked with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), where she was responsible for outreach to financial institutions in Latin America. Mareike pursued her...
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Echoing Green’s 2008 Fellowship – Apply Now
Echoing Green is an angel investor for entrepreneurs focused on social change. I wrote about a couple of their 2007 fellows earlier this summer. They provide seed funding and support to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector,...
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