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Bee Stings and Poverty
Last night I read a good piece in the interesting Aguanomics blog. It comes from a recent article related to “The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can’t Help the Poor” a book by Charles H. Karelis. I found it thought-provoking and worth sharing with the...
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Interview with Erik Simanis: BoP, Green, Development and Much More
Erik Simanis is not your average Ph.D. student.? For one thing, he’s done work on his degree at two separate institutions (the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business.)? Furthermore, he’s spent more time...
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Market for Change: Promoting Responsible Outsourcing
I just ran across one great idea (and a great video that explais it), via NextBillion ally Emeka Okafor and his great blog Timbuktu Chronicles. Market for Change was founded in 2007 “to catalyze sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation by creating a thriving, active...
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First Energy, then Food… is Water Next? A News Roundup
Today’s New York Times front page features, once again, the pressing crisis that has risen from soaring food prices around the world. The debate has found its way to institutions like the UN and the World Bank, who have called for urgent measures to keep the world’s poorest from...
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The Commercialization of Microfinance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Today in New York, I had the pleasure of attending a round table organized by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled The Commercialization of Microfinance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Moderated by CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman, the discussion featured comments from Mary Ellen...
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Guest Post: Glory and Riches? Unraveling Microfinance’s Allure among Young Job-Seekers
Guest blogger Lauren Withey is a research assistant for the World Resources Report at the World Resources Institute, in Washington D.C. By Lauren Withey It used to be that most U.S. college graduates, perhaps after spending a few years testing their penchants for various occupations or...
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Entrepreneurship@Cornell: Big, Red and Innovative
What’s big, red and innovative all over?? No, it’s not Clifford’s supremely creative cousin ? it’s Entrepreneurship@Cornell.? A university-wide initiative, Entrepreneurship@Cornell is unique in bringing together students, faculty, alumni and outside experts across a range of...
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Taking a BoP Venture to Scale, Part 2
In my last post, I put forth a definition on scaling a BoP venture: increasing business transactions that positively affect the lives of the poor. In this post I’d like to address the importance of scaling a BoP venture. Apoovra Shah recently brought up the issue of BoP ventures...
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