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Catalyzing New Markets for Sustainable Growth in India/Indonesia
In Indonesia, less than half of small businesses have access to formal financing. This fact is staggering given the importance of entrepreneurship in the thriving South Asian economies and it is one of the main reasons why New Ventures hosted its First Annual Investor Forums in India and...
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News Roundup: Risk-Reward Edition
"It’s a moment to balance the global with the local.” - Dr. Abhay Bang, director of SEARCHNextBillion?s news section contains 4 new items, all of which pertain to ?risk? in relation to the BOP community. But this risk I am referring to is two-fold. These news items address...
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Investor Forum Highlights Entrepreneurship in India
New Ventures India is wrapping up its annual Investor Forum, linking some of the country’s most outstanding small, sustainable enterprises with the capital and managerial training they need to grow and expand. ?Some initial highlights from the event include rousing discussions from Michael...
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Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
It is a familiar story: post-college volunteer (Peace Corps, etc.) returns from the developing world with a desire to help the community in which he or she has been staying.? The subsequent projects are also familiar ? they often involve selling local handicrafts to first-world markets, or...
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Rwandan coffee to Vegetable oil to Bug repellant?activities of all shapes, sizes, tastes and smell
So much to read, so little time?but these activities are definitely worth a look-over.Berni Labs - Distributing “Bug Balancer” Pest repellant for farmersJorge Berni, a longtime resident of the agriculture-dependent community in Los Mochis, Mexico, was convinced that farmers needed...
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Check out what’s new in the activity database…
I’ve recently been reading through some past blogs, keeping a keen and curious eye out for activities to add to NextBillion’s activity database...care to see what I found? Some very interesting, and of course worthwhile projects...ZENUFA Laboratories - TanzaniaZenufa, a pharmaceutical...
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Pakistan Journal: Reaching Rural Households With Technology
I was in Karachi this past weekend, where I addressed a packed seminar, Improving Access to Financial Services: Mobile Money Transfer and Beyond, convened by the Asian Development Bank and the State Bank of Pakistan. If audience enthusiasm is any indication, financial service provision over...
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Private Sector Finance and SME Development
Thanks to a commenter?s suggestion from Munyaradzi Musamba, I checked out a new report from InfoDev about the role of private sector finance in small- and medium-sized enterprise development. The report, Scaling Up Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: The Role of Private...
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