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Guest Post: Learning Humility at the BoP Learning Lab
Guest blogger Jocelyn Wyatt leads IDEO’s base of the pyramid design efforts. Before joining IDEO, Jocelyn was a member of the inaugural class of Acumen Fund Fellows. As a Fellow, Jocelyn worked for Advanced Bio-Extracts (ABE), a leading manufacturer and cultivator of artemisinin, a key...
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Job: Product Manager, MicroPlace
Job: Product Manager Location: San Jose, California About MicroPlace: MicroPlace’s mission is to alleviate global poverty to enable every day people to make investments in the working poor. MicroPlace will accomplish this mission by maintaining a web-based marketplace to connect...
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Guest Post: The Major Leagues of Microfinance
Guest blogger Matt MacGregor is a second year Masters Candidate at the Fletcher School, studying development economics and international environmental resource policy.? A native of Little Compton, RI, USA, he has consulted on savings-led microfinance programs for Catholic Relief Services in...
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The Business Model of Hope and Dreams
It is often the case that business models touch but rarely elaborate on the aspirational value of many products offered for the first time at the BOP level and the subconscious consequences they have on BOP consumers. I recently read, with a touch of sadness, a short article published in the...
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Four Questions for MicroPlace Founder Tracey Pettengill Turner
In case you haven’t heard, there’s this new thing called MicroPlace. It’s a major turn in the life of the microfinance movement founded by entrepreneur (philanthropreneur?) Tracey Pettengill Turner. In between advancing her vision for solutions to poverty and running Ironman...
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Internship: Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization in Washington, DC seeks a part time or full time intern to provide administrative and research support to CGD?s executive office. The Intern will support the executive office in a...
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Introducing NextBillion Staff Writer Manuel Bueno
We at the World Resources Institute (which powers NextBillion.net) are pleased to introduce Manuel Bueno as NextBillion.net’s newest staff writer. Manuel Bueno is a staff writer for NextBillion.net. He is currently employed as a Financial Services Strategy Consultant at the Deloitte...
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Moving the Next Billion: In Bangalore, Mapunity Can Put Everyone on the Map – Literally
Yesterday, I attended a presentation by Madhav Pai, who was visiting WRI to tell us about a system developed by an organization he has worked with called Mapunity, that is linking together MIS, GIS, and SMS technologies to enhance transportation access and planning in Bangalore. If this...
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