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The Wealth of the Poor: How Ecosystem Services Benefit the Base of the Pyramid
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Happy Third Birthday, NextBillion
According to the National Network for Child Care, a typical three year-old is “full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world.” Yesterday, on the occasion of NextBillion.net’s third birthday,...
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Job: Associate, Satya Capital
UPDATE: THIS POST IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Position: Associate/Director Location: London Organization: Satya Capital Limited is a private investment firm specializing in Africa-related investment, providing companies with the operational, technological and financial resources they need to expand and take advantage of burgeoning...
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Microfinance and the Rule of Law: From the Coffeehouse to the Credit Bureau
A recent Forbes publication, “Microfinance Fights Growing Pains,” examined the rapid growth and associated challenges of the microfinance field. As noted in the article (and thanks to Vital Wave Consulting for highlighting this), the explosion of new entrants and the overall rapid...
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Introducing Staff Writer David Lehr
The NextBillion.net team is proud to introduce our newest member: Staff Writer David Lehr. David has over fifteen years of experience in international business and development focused primarily on information communication technologies and job creation and is currently Senior Advisor, Social...
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New CGAP Study: Known Knowns And Known Unknowns About Branchless Banking
This weekend I had the chance to read CGAP?s new report about branchless banking. The report is a short summary about the current state of the branchless banking market. To those readers who do not know anything of the market it is an easy introduction. To those readers who have been...
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Telling Stories Over Stats: The S.E.VEN Film Competition
Stephen J. Gould once called humans “the primates who tell stories.” Stories are part of how we transfer culture, they are a device through which we shape our identity and relationship to the world - in the development community, they are a way to get people to act. Stories help...
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NextBillion’s Grace Augustine to Join Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog
I received an e-mail today from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, one of my favorite journals in the ’third sector’ space. The e-mail was to inform subscribers that SSIR has added 5 new writers to its influential Opinion Blog - including NextBillion.net’s very own Grace...
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