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An Alternative Urban Vision for India – Affordable Housing
I recently attended the First Habitat Summit, a joint initiative by India Habitat Centre and Urban Habitats Forum. There were some of the discussions which I feel qualify as a good read for the BoP community. One of them was on the topic of Affordable Housing. This engaging session was chaired by Ashish Karamchandani from Monitor Group...
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A Simple Solution for the Information Divide
I guarantee that anybody reading this blog takes for granted the wealth of information at their fingertips. Looking for something? Google it.But for the billions of of people in the developing world that don’t even have a mobile phone, what do they do?
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Legatum Conference: Progress Through Innovation in Action
This image was the winner of the Legatum Photo Competition India track, in which women, trained by engineers, prepare food with solar cookers to sell to people in neighboring villages.
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Apply Now to Become a 2011 Acumen Fund Fellow
Acumen Fund is excited to announce that the application process for the 2010-2011 Class of Acumen Fund Fellows is now open! (Full disclosure: I work at Acumen Fund and the organization is one of the NextBillion’s Founding Sponsors.)Applications will be accepted online until 11:59pm EST on Thursday, November 5, 2009.
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BoP Conference Report: Be Patient, Stay Longer, Come Back
This past weekend, 100+ attendees convened in Ann Arbor, Michigan for "Creating a Shared Roadmap: Collaboratively Advancing the Base of the Pyramid Community." Despite the tortured title - one only an academic could love! - the 3-day event was incredibly vibrant and merits a quick report-out here on NextBillion.
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Farmers Rejoice: Exploitative Middlemen in the Spotlight
The Financial Times (US) published a full-page article October 2 entitled "To feed a need" that brought to mind research that WRI generated back in 2003 on the Indian conglomerate, ITC, and its rural engagement strategy called e-Choupal. The article and the case study document the benefits of direct market access by poor rural farmers in India.
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Too Many or Too Few Choices? The Dilemma of Expanding Financial Access to Underserved Markets
In a recent BusinessWeek article, Economics Editor Peter Coy weighs the merits and risks of financial innovation. "The big problem:," he writes, "it’s hard to tell the beneficial ideas from the ones that are self-serving or dangerous." Such was the focus of the second annual Global Empowerment Meeting.
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Why Should We Evaluate Social Enterprises?
Recent readings and discussions made me think about the question "Why should we evaluate social enterprise?" Some macro level answers may be - ’To be able to generalize. To make comparisons across companies and across sectors. To demonstrate the social and environmental impact of these enterprises in an objective way.’ What’s in it for the company?
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