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Report from Tokyo: The Next 4 Billion now in Japanese
The World Bank has translated The Next 4 Billion into Japanese, and the Bank held a launch event in Tokyo, May 23. “The World Bank Tokyo Office is pleased to make this important research available to a broad audience in Japan,” said Lester Dally, World Bank Acting Special...
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Risk Capital for the BOP: Thoughts on TIE and Acumen Fund
Following famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to the speaker?s podium at the huge annual conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIEcon 2007) was interesting. First, some of the audience decided it was time to go to lunch. More interesting was the unexpected similarity of what we both had to...
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Guest Post: Let’s Build an Africa TechCorps
Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting; Jeremy M. Goldberg is the Director of Communications for AMGlobal. They blog at Andy’s Global View.By Andrew Mack with Jeremy M. GoldbergAll over Africa, there is a significant realization that tech is the...
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Wednesday: A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant – RSVP
Reminder: This is on Wednesday; please RSVP.Ever wondered how you can move into the elusive world of BOP consulting? The DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group is pleased to announce its May meeting, “A Day in the Life of a BOP Consultant.” The featured speaker...
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Emerging Market Investment Hits the Mainstream: Green Sectors Are Up Next
The following article provides summary analysis of two events last week hosted by WRI-IFC and IFC-EMPEA. The conferences dealt with the issues of green investment in emerging economies and the broader growth of emerging economy investment, respectively. ...
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Microfinance Action
A wrap of the recent spate of announcements in the microfinance space shows some interesting trends:Investments are coming from across the world and are of significantly larger scale.Dubai-based privately-owned finance firm Legatum Capital, run by one of New Zealand?s richest men -...
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Inclusion for Market Growth
Arun Maira (right), Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India, has written an excellent editorial in India?s prominent business daily, The Economic Times.In his view, Inclusion is the mantra for growth in bottom of the pyramid markets.Maira writes:Down-sizing products and services...
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Mobilizing the Private Sector for Global Health in Toronto
I had the good fortune to attend the conference “Mobilizing the Private Sector for Global Health Development,” organized by the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, Program on Life Sciences and Global Health at the University of Toronto, from May 2-4.The food was really good. The conference...
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