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Contest: Innovative, Intuitive and Original Ideas to Explain Micro-Insurance

Usually people at the BOP cannot afford to pay for insurance or health care. When they fall ill, they end up spending all their own money on surgery, doctors? appointments, tests ? they simply cannot afford health care. Micro-insurance offers an alternative approach to this problem. At...

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BoP, Geopolitics, and Giving the People What They Need

Editor’s note: Tayo Akinyemi will be starting the MBA program at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management this fall. I?m leaving for business school today, so this will be my last post on NextBillion.net for awhile. Although I didn?t answer all of my twenty questions (and...

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Immigrants Build Houses in Mexico with Remittances- The Case of Construmex

Many immigrants come to work in the US, and when they do, they usually leave family behind. Often, their primary objective is to make money and provide for their families back home. Some companies - like the Mexico-based multinational cement giant CEMEX - are taking advantage of this situation...

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New Case Study: What Works: Scojo India Foundation

Note: We were notified that the version of the case study, What Works: Scojo India Foundation, released on 6/20/07 was found to have citation errors. The case study has since undergone revision and is now again available for downloading. The version available here is the authoritative final...

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New OTF Innnitiative for East Africa Countries

The OTF group has launched a new initiative: The Pioneers of Prosperity Grant and Award Program. A partnership between the OTF Group and the John F. Templeton Foundation of the United States, the competition promotes companies in East Africa and identifies and cultivates local role models that...

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Introducing NextBillion’s New Staff Writer

I’m happy to introduce our newest staff writer, Ana Escalante, to the NextBillion community.Ana has joined our team as a summer intern.? She has a long-held interest in international development, having observed first hand the effects of poverty and inequality in her community in...

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Changemakers Competition a Magnet for Health Innovations

Ashoka’s Changemakers competition, “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” closed today, and it looks to be a treasure trove of business model innovations that are bringing health solutions to the BOP. There are entries from microinsurance, franchising, direct selling,...

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Doing Business Meets Google Maps

We’ve talked a lot about the excellent Doing Business reports that the World Bank Group produces every year.? A quick reminder: The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175...

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