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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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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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