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Update on Comments
For those of you who have been watching the site, you know that comments were temporarily disabled on the site last week because of a spam attack. Commenting is back on now for everyone, so please comment away... We’ll be keeping an eye on the site to help keep it this way. Happy...
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TONIGHT: Microfinance Club of NY Event
Via Pablo Halkyard, who many will recognize as a co-founder of PSD Blog. He’s now up at NYU doing a master’s degree. In any case, Pablo sent me an e-mail regarding the following event...if you’re in NYC, check it out:The Microfinance Club of New York in cooperation with The...
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Base of the Pyramid — Cartoon Edition
This came across my desk via Virginia Barreiro, director of New Ventures.? For your Tuesday afternoon (EDT) pleasure....
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Indian Education: Missing Markets, New Opportunities
The role of the private sector in promoting education is a topic of considerable interest and discussion. Atanu Dey’s series of blog posts on The Indian Education System make for good reading.An extract:"Imagine for a bit what it would be like if education were provided by private...
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Karnani: Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Aneel Karnani, the Michigan strategy professor and controversial author of “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid", has a new article in the Summer edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.? “Microfinance Misses Its Mark” examines some of the failures of microfinance,...
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BOP in Bogota – Conference This Week
I realize I’ve been pretty quiet on NextBillion lately.? Thankfully Derek, Tayo, Nitin, Al, Bill, and Julia have picked up a ton of slack and are writing fantastic pieces. One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet lately is simply that I haven’t been around much.? Between work...
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Rising Ventures: Suminter Makes “Satva” a Sustainable Business Proposition
Suminter India Organics was founded on the philosophy that fair, transparent business practices and high-quality products would provide part of a blended value business model that would generate benefits for local farmers while penetrating a significant and growing market for organic goods. ...
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Rising Ventures: Conserve HRP’s BoP Bags Make a Sustainable Fashion Statement
Conserve HRP caters to the “fashion with a conscience” crowd by marketing chic hand-made accessories crafted from recycled materials. Conserve employs 300 under-served laborers, mostly women, who acquire the disposed materials and create bags and belts that are sold in...
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