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Guest Post: Could ?GIM 2.0? Enable Scale through Policy Innovation?
In 2008, UNDP?s Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative released its first report, Creating Value for All. It is now considering its next steps, "GIM 2.0". While awareness and interest in inclusive business seem to be growing, few inclusive business models have actually achieved scale. What is the role of initiatives like GIM in this context?
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Welcome to the New NextBillion.net
About six months ago we began working on the redesign of NextBillion.net. We’ve listened, brainstormed, tested, re-tested, built, re-built... and today we’re pleased to introduce the new version of NextBillion.net. Read the rest of the article to get a preview of what’s new. We hope you like it and look forward to hearing what you think!
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Roundup: Catching Up on Our Base of the Pyramid Reading
My friend David, NextBillion reader and BOPreneur, pinged me last night and rightly asked why NextBillion.net has been slower than usual these days, missing a few of big news pieces that relate to the base of the pyramid and development through enterprise. He was right.
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iBoP Asia: Science and Technology Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid
iBoP Asia recently announced the winners of their first small grants competition and the second competition is coming up soon. I wanted to highlight the grants program for our readers at NextBillion, as I know that many of you have the ideas they are looking for.
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Job: Innovative Finance Position, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Position: Innovative Finance Role Location: Geneva, Switzerland Organization: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)’s mission is to reduce malnutrition through the use of food fortification and other strategies aimed at improving the health and nutrition of populations at...
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Migration in Light of the Economic Crisis
As I was perusing my Sunday New York Times this past week, two stories stood out to me. Both mentioned migrants struggling to keep jobs in the developed nations where they were working. One article profiled Alexandrina Ciurea, a Romanian cleaning woman working in Rome; the other described...
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Microfinance Reaches More Than 100 Million Poor as Clouds Gather in the Horizon
When Muhammad Yunus, Ingrid Munro and other microfinance pioneers, got together in the first Microfinance Summit in 1997, they adopted what for many was an impossible goal: to reach 100 million people living with less than $1 per day by 2005.? Although the deadline was missed, the 100m mark was reached in 2007, an incredible feat nonetheless.
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D.light Looking for Talented Fellows
D.Light, the renewable energy organization that distributes clean sources of light in the developing world, is looking for its first class of Fellows.D.Light, which has often been mentioned on NextBillion, is an incredible start-up that was founded by savvy Stanford MBA graduates Sam Goldman...
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