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Jobs: Manager, Makeda Fund
NextBillion ally and Timbuktu Chronicles author Emeka Okafor sent me a note today, asking me to post the attached job description.? Emeka - a Nigerian ex-pat - is working with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund to launch a new private equity fund based in Lagos called...
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Making Sense of SME Investments: Are SMEs a New Asset Class?
By Rob Katz and Mareike HusselsAt World Resources Institute, our New Ventures team tends to think about the “next big thing” as far as small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are concerned. This morning, I had a great discussion with my colleague Mareike Hussels about the...
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Jobs: Acumen Fund Portfolio Associate
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Portfolio Associate.Location: New York, NYAcumen 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 create a blueprint for...
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Bringing Rural Brazil Into the Internet Age?
Co-ops are big in Brazil. They are how small communities organize to help themselves, given that they are often overlooked by large companies. Recently I had the opportunity to visit just such a coop in Valente, a town deep in Bahia in Brazil’s Northeast....
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Advanced Logistics for Base of the Pyramid Enterprises
A WalMart-type logistics system, tracking every sale of every item at every outlet? Surely that’s overkill for a base of the pyramid (BOP) business--or is it? Last week Julia Tran--WRI’s BOP health sector specialist--and I visited Mi Farmacita, a franchise pharmacy that provides low...
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Colorado State’s Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.? -- Thomas Edison If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Global Social Enterprise Program at Colorado State University’s School of Business.? When I applied to the Johnson...
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BoP Learning Labs: Coinventing the Inclusive Economy
Cornell University has been at the heart of the base of the pyramid (BoP) discussion since Stu Hart became a professor there in 2003. The school’s programs study growth opportunities that address the needs of the world’s poorest communities and drive business success.The next logical...
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Boston Consulting Group Takes on Next Billion
Boston Consulting Group has been conducting extensive primary research into the spending habits and lifestyle of a segment of the population it identifies as the “next billion.” The “next billion” are economically better off than the poorest of the poor, but earn just less...
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