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Where Microfinance and Climate Change Meet
The World Bank recently released the April edition of Development Outreach, which happily addresses head-on the connections between development and climate change. I was pleased to see articles on topics as diverse as development for climate change adaptation and environmental considerations...
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Making Biofuels Work for the BoP in Haiti
A new paper posted in our resources section gives a specific regional example of the potential benefits of biofuels for the BoP (this adds to our previous discussions on the subject here, here and here). The paper - by Kathleen Robbins of the GreenMicrofinance Group -...
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Job: Acumen Fund, Executive Assistant to the CEO
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Executive Assistant to the CEO.Location: New York, NY Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to...
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Guest Post: Erik Simanis Explains the BoP Protocol
Guest blogger Erik Simanis is Co-Director of the BoP Protocol project. Erik co-founded the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory in 2000 with Professor Stuart Hart. He holds a BA in Spanish from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business (University of North...
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Links Roundup: BP, Branding, and Miscellany
Some links for you to kick the post-lunch work slump: BP innovates for the BoP Via Perspective 2.0, an article on Oorja - a BP stove that runs on biomass pellets instead of wood, which is a more common fuel source for cookstoves in rural India... sounds very much like that of an SME in...
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Job: Acumen Fund Pakistan, Business Development Manager
Acumen Fund’s Pakistan Office is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Business Development Manager. Location: Karachi, Pakistan Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a...
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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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