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Rising Ventures: Harnessing the Ingenuity of the BoP
Every entrepreneur has a story. Anyone with the wherewithal and acumen to start a business had to have something click at some point - a moment when they saw an unrecognized market opportunity and the perfect product or service to fill that gap. For Tommy Matthew, this moment came from...
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A Condominium for Squatters – Land Reform in Sri Lanka
Ashoka Fellow Darin Gunesekera has succeeded in securing deeds to a brand new condominium to more than 670 families ? 4,000 people - in Sri Lanka who formerly lived in a slum. Property and regulatory system reform has gained momentum in recent years, and this model suggests significant...
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Enterprises on the Move
If I?m not scouring obscure newspapers for BOP related stories, staring aimlessly off into space, clipping my toe nails, or thinking about integrating a word like phallogocentrism into a blog about microfinance, then chances are I?m adding new activities to Nextbillion?s activity...
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Changemakers Contest – How to Provide Affordable Housing
Changemakers is at it again. Loyal NextBillionites might remember that Changemakers is an innovation-recognition initiative of Ashoka, the award-winning social entrepreneurship incubator. CM runs contests awarding the best entrepreneurs in a given sector ? previous competitions have included...
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Building Opportunity for the Majority: Day One
I attended the Inter-American Development Bank?s ?Building Opportunity for the Majority? conference today ? a 2-day event serving as a launching pad for newly-elected Bank president Luis Alberto Moreno?s personal agenda. If Day One of the conference was any indication, Bank-watchers...
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Reporting back from the Kenyan Development Network Consortium
The Kenyan Development Network Consortium held a ?co-creation? workshop on Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, in Washington DC. (KDNC was founded by Macharia Waruingi, a long-time member of NextBillion.) Participants were mostly members of the Kenyan diaspora, working professionals with a...
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Acumen Fund Launches Blog
We?ve talked about Acumen Fund before here at NextBillion ? the non-profit venture fund that supports BOP enterprises delivering critical goods and services to the world?s low-income communities through investments. Like us, they too believe in using entrepreneurial, private-sector...
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