NextBillion - A WDI Publication

Bogot?s Transmilenio: Transformation of a City ? la BoP?

If you’ve been to Bogot? in the last seven years, you’ve probably noticed a city that is distinctly different from the metropolises of many other Latin American countries. It’s cleaner, more efficient and easier to navigate. Not only that, many of the city’s public spaces exist...

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Two New Papers Explore Base of the Pyramid Concept

Two new papers exploring the ’base of the pyramid’ concept crossed my desk recently. We posted both of them to the Newsroom, but they also merit a slightly longer discussion. First, Jean-Louis Warnholz of the University of Oxford’s Queen Elizabeth House has a new working paper...

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Job Posting: Housing/Land Tenure Consultant, International Finance Corporation

Position: Consulting Assignment Location: Brazil Organization: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, promotes open and competitive markets in developing countries. IFC supports sustainable private sector companies and other...

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Job Posting: Managing Director, Sustainable Supply Chain Management Center

Position: Managing Director, Sustainable Supply Chain Management CenterLocation: Eugene, OregonOrganization: Lundquist College of Business, University of OregonJob Description: The Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) Center will be a cornerstone of the Lundquist College of...

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Business Ethics at the Base of the Pyramid

Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic...

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To Give or Not to Give: Academics Study Bednet Distribution

On Wednesday, I attended a presentation by Jessica Cohen on her doctoral research experiment (co-authored with Pascaline Dupas) about distribution schemes for anti-malarial long-lasting bednets. The randomized experiment, conducted in rural, western Kenya, aimed to test the difference between...

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P.K. Sethi, Inventor of Jaipur Foot, Remembered

Yesterday, as I rode the metro home from work, I browsed through the obituaries section, as is my daily habit.? While reading the newspaper, however, I came across a news obituary relevant to my work, and to NextBillion.net.? I had not heard, but P.K. Sethi - an Indian surgeon and the mind...

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Will 2008 Be The Year of ’Next Billion’ or ’Bottom Billion’?

What’s in a name, a brand, a catchphrase? In some sense, everything. But a brand/name/phrase is only as good as the content behind it. So when U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently declared 2008 to be “the year of the ’bottom billion’,” I paid attention - after...

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