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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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God at the Base of the Pyramid?
A key concept when operating a business at the base of the pyramid, or in any place for that matter, is contextualization. And by contextualization I mean a deep understanding and embrace of local culture. A simple example of contextualization in business can be observed by comparing the...
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Job: Gray Matters Capital Foundation, Program Officer
Location: Atlanta, GeorgiaOrganization: Gray Matters Capital Foundation is a charitable arm of Gray Ghost Ventures, a social investment company that seeks to invest in visionary people, with an emphasis on microfinance and education.? Since 1996, Gray Ghost Ventures has worked to foster...
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