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ANDE Conference Live: Dr. Rajiv Shah’s Opening Plenary
The 2010 Annual ANDE Conference kicked off with Dr. Rajiv Shah, current USAID Administrator, giving the opening plenary, outlining new focuses for USAID in the small and growing business field.
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Philanthrocapitalism Debate
Resolved: Market-based models will save the world. Bishop, New York Bureau Chief of The Economist and co-author of Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, spoke in the affirmative. Edwards, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and author of the newly published Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World, took up the negative.
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BoP Heavyweights Bishop, Edwards and Tooley Coming to NYC
If you are based in or around New York - or have plans to travel there in the coming months - you may be interested in two upcoming events that feature base of the pyramid subjects and experts.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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Exploring the Link between Multinational Corporations and SMEs in Emerging Markets
NV has realized that not all the companies it works with are looking for investment or are at the right stage to receive investment from venture funds. In stead, a fair portion of companies are looking to expand into new markets and obtain contracts from international buyers. Here’s a way for you to contribute to this goal.
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- Investing, Uncategorized
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- corporations, MSMEs
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Is Aid Working?
It is hard to argue with the lofty ambition to end once and for all the scourge that is global poverty. How the world should go about this, however, is much more vexed. If poor countries do not have sufficient capital, aid advocates argue that there is a moral imperative for rich ones to help. Since 1970 hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral and multilateral aid has been sent to Africa from the developed world. G20 leaders agreed at last month’s summit London that an extra $50bn ...
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hammond vs. Karnani: Debating “Romanticizing the Poor” Part 2
In December, Professor Aneel Karnani published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? At the time, we posted about it here on NextBillion.net and suggested that our review of the article would be forthcoming; it has not, and for that, we apologize...
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Hammond vs. Karnani: Debating “Romanticizing the Poor” Part 1
Editor’s note: In December, Professor Aneel Karnani published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? At the time, we posted about it here on NextBillion.net and suggested that our review of the article would be forthcoming; it has...
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Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
Last month, Aneel Karnani wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review an article entitled, "Romanticizing the Poor."? In it, he states, "...romanticized views of BoP people as value-conscious consumers and resilient entrepreneurs are not only false, but also harmful." I think a lot of what Karnani says in the article is true ...
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- Investing
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