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Portfolios of the Poor: Financial Diaries of the Bottom Billion
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a book discussion for Portfolios of the Poor: How the World?s Poor Live on $2 a Day. The recently released book focuses on methodology and new ways of thinking about the bottom billion. They focused on roughly 300 urban and rural households...
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“Can we make money and be good? Really?”
Sounds like a familiar question that drives people to sites like NextBillion.net, right? It is also one of the questions to be tackled during TED’s first conference in India, this coming November.
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After a Small Car, it?s a Small Home from Tata Housing
Bangalore: Soon after Tata Motors Ltd launched the Nano, touted as the world’s cheapest car, another group company announced on Wednesday that it will build homes that cost between Rs3.9 lakh and Rs6.7 lakh. Privately held Tata Housing Development Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, has launched the first of these projects, branded Shubh Griha, in Boisar, a distant suburb in Mumbai, the company said. The firm will invest up to Rs100 crore in a 1,200-unit township in the ...
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Book Review: In the River They Swim
Where does this title come from? Why rivers and swimming? I wondered about these questions as I opened a copy of "In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty", a new book edited by Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobari-Rose and Elizabeth Hooper. The answer to my question came pretty soon...
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Staff Writer Grace Augustine Moves On. Next Stop: Oxford
In January of 2008 Rob welcomed Grace Augustine as a Staff Writer for NextBillion.net. I remember it clearly, as I had just met Grace and many of her colleagues in Ann Arbor while attending the 2008 edition of the Net Impact Forum at the University of Michigan. Today, we wish her the best as she prepares to start a new stage at Oxford.
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Something to Cheer: Nano Homes for Rs 3-5 Lakh
BANGALORE: Creating products and services for the bottom of the pyramid is the sweet spot where social objectives marry economic benefits. After cars and mobile calls, developers and social entrepreneurs are looking at creating ‘Nano’ homes. On the anvil are houses for between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh for a constituency as diverse as domestic help, taxi drivers, plumbers, senior citizens, graduates, newly wed couples - basically, those who earn between Rs 6,500 and Rs 13,000 ...
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Will Surekha Dial an Ambulance?
A tiny bead of sweat ran down the ridge of my nose. It reached the end, teetered for a split second, then dropped quietly onto the doctor?s desk. I sat behind the desk, inside the Vijay Nagar Women of India clinic, which is tucked into a government-built housing project in the Bandra East area of Mumbai.
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Global Social Venture Competition: Weighing the Health of Children in Mali
Around one in five children in Mali dies before his or her fifth birthday. Imagine preventing half of these 117,000 annual deaths with a few cell phones and scales. I interviewed the founders of Pesinet - a new organization and 2009 GSVC finalist - and I’m excited about the ability of their new micro-insurance program to accomplish just that.
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