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Talent at the Base of the Pyramid: The Role of the Expat
The traditional talent support approach for base of the pyramid (BoP) projects has been a sending model: workers/professionals from the developed world are sent by an organization to a developing country to manage a local project. The American Peace Corps was established with the intent of...
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Guest Post: “Imagine the Base of the Pyramid Using Social Networks”
Guest blogger Jenara Nerenberg is the Founder of BOP Source. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she is a Columnist for a national business magazine and a Consultant on new media marketing. Jenara was a Consultant to the Harvard Center...
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Social Capital Markets Conference Preview
NextBillion is heading west ? San Francisco, to be precise.? Francisco and I will be on the road this weekend ? along with 600+ fellow attendees ? in preparation for next week’s Social Capital Markets conference, which runs Monday through Wednesday in the city by the bay.? We’ll...
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Guest Post: Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance Announced at the Clinton Global Initiativ
Guest blogger Sofia Leon is currently the Senior Program Coordinator at the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International. Her passion is sustainable social enterprise, specifically seeking to scale BOP energy delivery without subsidies. By Sofia LeonFollowing an all-star Opening...
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Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Launches
Do we need another Fellows program?? That was my initial thought when I first heard of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and its related Legatum Fellows program.? After all, there are so many programs dedicated to identifying and supporting existing or budding social...
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Water and Sanitation Discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative
Luckily there are live webcasts for the rest of us who were not able to sit at the sessions and ask questions during the sessions at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. ?I have spent a handful of hours during the last few days browsing around the content of this year’s CGI,...
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Want to Quit Smoking? Try a Mobile Phone
The base of the pyramid conversation often involves talking about the size and composition of BoP markets (which, in fact, was the topic of my previous post) and how to create business models that sustainably create wealth for the people in those communities and the firms involved.I recently...
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Climate Adaptation Funding Priorities Emerge from World Bank?s Development Marketplace
Guest blogger Lauren Withey is a research analyst for the Climate, Energy and?Transport Program at the?at the World Resources Institute, in Washington D.C. By Lauren Withey"So, we are going to help the indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon raise bugs,” the young Colombian...
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