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A Digital Alladin’s Lamp for the BoP?
A new wave of Internet connectivity for the BoP is under way by means of making the Web audible.Internetspeech has developed a technology that makes the Internet accessible over the phone. That’s right. Just a phone line and your voice; no keyboards, no screens and no literacy...
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Interview with CGAP’s Mark Pickens: Branchless Banking Sector “Exploding” (Part 2)
Mark Pickens is a Microfinance Analyst with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global resource center for microfinance housed at the World Bank. We published the first part of the interview here on April 4th. CGAP are arguably the most authoritative source of information about...
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Job: Analyst, IGNIA BoP Investment Fund
Position: Analyst, IGNIALocation: Monterrey, MexicoOrganization: IGNIA is a $75 million venture capital fund and enterprise development organization? focused on fighting poverty by investing in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Latin...
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Interview with CGAP’s Mark Pickens: Branchless Banking Sector “Exploding”
Mark Pickens is a Microfinance Analyst with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global resource center for microfinance housed at the World Bank. We have quoted CGAP on NextBillion in several posts (see them here, here and here). They are arguably the most authoritative source ...
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Jobs: Acumen Fund India, Legal and Portfolio Associates
Acumen Fund’s India Office is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the positions of Portfolio Associate and Legal Associate. Location: Hyderabad, India Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less...
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Executive Development Program: “Inclusive and Sustainable Business: Creating Markets with the Poor”
The World Bank Institute is hosting an executive development program titled “Inclusive and Sustainable Business: Creating Markets with the Poor", aimed at business executives interested in the design of business strategies with the BoP. The curriculum includes various interesting...
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WRI Releases Case Study on Conversion Franchising Pioneer, CareShop Ghana
Though I’m no longer on WRI and NextBillion’s staff, I’m glad to announce the release of WRI’s latest What Works business case study, CareShop Ghana: Improving access to essential drugs through conversion franchising. This study is authored by Joel Segre (Harvard Business...
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What Goes from Capital Markets to the BoP
Two stories have got me thinking about capital markets and their interaction with the BoP. The first one involves a State Minister of an industrialized country announcing funding for a project to create a “social stock market". The second one features 12,500(!) new shareholders of a...
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