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NextBillion Announces Partnership With Acumen Fund
By Derek Newberry and Rob Katz NextBillion.net is happy to announce that, as of today, the site will be co-owned and co-managed by World Resources Institute and its newest partner, Acumen Fund. Since NextBillion.net’s launch in 2005, we have admired Acumen Fund’s innovative approach...
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Guest Post: What It Means to be Patient – Drip Irrigation in Pakistan’s Thar Desert
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University. By Sasha Dichter Today, we...
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Guest Post: Finding Good Capitalists
Guest blogger Blair Miller is a Manager of Business Development at Acumen Fund. She has lived and worked in Senegal, South Korea, India, and El Salvador. Her pursuit of a literature degree the University of Virginia opened her mind to the importance of social change and her MBA from Michigan...
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Admin: Claiming NextBillion on Technorati
Dear Readers -If you see this post, please ignore it. We are working to make sure Technorati’s spiders see NextBillion.net properly, and this is a step in that process. Please excuse us as we air our laundry for all to see.Technorati...
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Job: Senior Researcher, Institute for Financial Management and Research
Position: Senior Researcher, BoP Energy Sector Analysis, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)Location: Chennai, IndiaOrganization: The Centre for Development Finance of the IFMR is a development economics research and action centre. It was formally established in...
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Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis – Vote Now!
As Ana first reported back in February, Ashoka’s Changemakers and the Global Water Challenge have partnered to open a worldwide search for ideas and projects with the potential to transform the provision of sanitation and water worldwide.? The search, entitled Unclogging the Water and...
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Utilities at the Base of the Pyramid
It was sunny, and tempting to sit outside at the University of San Diego to enjoy the weather. Inside, however, a group of global practitioners and scholars - organized by Patricia Marquez of USD and Carlos Rufin of Sussex University and Babson College - were discussing the role of utilities at...
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Africa Investment Horizons
As I turned the corner, it appeared almost out of nowhere - a monument to the successes (and failures) of capitalism - the New York Stock Exchange. I had ventured downtown to attend the premiere of Carol Pineau’s new documentary, Africa Investment Horizons, which was being screened inside...
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