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Bridging the Finance Gap for a Generation of “Philanthropreneurs”
Late last month, Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deputy Managing Director of the ICICI Bank and Chairman of the New Ventures India Steering Committee announced that his bank would be launching a 100 crore fund for green businesses in emerging markets with a focus on SMEs. 100 crore is a serious commitment,...
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Changemakers – Putting Health Innovations into Practice
Web 2.0, meet BOP. (Wow, now that is a jargon-laden sentence.) Hopefully my jargon serves to highlight some of the latest efforts to bring the broad web community together in search of the next, best base of the pyramid idea. Yesterday, I introduced IBM’s upcoming ThinkPlace Challenge -...
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BOP Job Announcements – Intellecap and IAMFI
A couple of BOP-related jobs have come across my desk lately.? Read on for the full descriptions:Intellecap is a consulting firm focused on capital advisory for the inclusive finance space and creating and delivering mainstream, profitable solutions to address the problems of poverty and...
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Big Blue Going to the BOP
It’s been quiet here on NextBillion the last few days - not by design, but rather out of necessity. Al just returned from two weeks of travel throughout Asia, and met Tuesday and Wednesday here in DC with our partners at Intel and MicroVest. Meanwhile, Bill just returned from Dubai, and...
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Conference Report: Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investment
Well it appears as if last week was ?conference week? here at NextBillion, so it?s my turn to dish on my recent attendee experience. Ready? Here I go. I was fortunate enough to attend ’Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investments,’ a symposium organized by the Emerging...
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Roadblocks to Financial Inclusion
When I recently attended The Second Annual Conference on Public Policy and Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, I had not imagined that it will be difficult to summarize it in a blog post. Discussed at the conference - current thinking on the proposed National Rural...
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Subsidies at the BOP?
Cheikh Mbengue, an expert from Abt Associates on community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in Africa, said something that perked my ears last Wednesday at a USAID After Hours Seminar on microinsurance. He said that he thinks CBHIs can’t function effectively without subsidies. No one...
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Hard vs. Soft: Defining Critical Skills at the BoP
When I?ve asked those who are active at the BoP what skills are needed in the space, the answer I receive is deceptively simple: ?everything.? Perhaps this is because, as long time BoP entrepreneur Patrick Donohue explained, BoP is really about the ?creation of markets.? After...
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