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Water, Water Everywhere: Much More Than Monsoons and Droughts Impact Water Choices, or Lack Thereof
The second in a four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions explores the disparate ways in which villages gather and store water in Rajasthan. While some villages have multiple options, in other areas potable water choices are limited. Often, the purity of a water source is the last priority for BoP consumers.
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Water, Water Everywhere, But How Do Companies Sell It?
The first in a four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions. Researchers from Rural Market Insight (RMI) at the Centre for Development Finance (CDF) spent a month in Rajasthan discovering BoP consumer preferences for filtered water.
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Book Review: The Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder
Jody Heymann?s book, "The Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce," examines how to improve working conditions of employees while also increasing a company?s success.
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Friday Roundup – 10/15/10: New Links in the Patient Capital Curve
USAID, Vinod Khosla, Blog Action Day and microfranchising on this week’s Friday Roundup.
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Good News for Mel Gibson, and Education
Young adults like "Mel Gibson," a Malawi resident with a creative pseudonym, have the drive to expand their education, but rarely the financial resources. This Q&A with student microloan-focused Vittana examines the group’s expansion into Africa, reactions to Kiva entering the student loan space, and how the sector is helping students like Mel.
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Innovative Mobile Phone Strategies in the Developing World
At the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School, five innovators discussed their work and the prospects of mobile applications for the Base of the Pyramid.
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Bob Annibale: ?Banker to the Banker of the Poor?
Citi’s name is all over the highlight reel of microfinance’s growth in the last decade by "mainstreaming microfinance" into its global operations. More recently, Citi has been developing non-credit products, including microinsurance and savings plans for unbanked customers, according to Bob Annibale, Global Director of Citi Microfinance
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Book Your Calendar for NSEF ’Confluence’
National Student Entrepreneurship Forum is hosting its annual meeting, "Confluence," on Oct. 23 and features an impressive speaker line up from some of the top organizations in this sector.
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