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Behind the Scenes at “The Next 4 Billion” Yesterday
The launch of our The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid report yesterday triggered a number of thoughts and conversations about how forces are starting to align in support of market-based approaches to alleviating poverty. First, the standing room only...
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Initial News and Other TN4B Stories
Today’s The Next 4 Billion book launch event at the International Finance Corporation was a success by any measure.? There was a full house to hear C.K. Prahalad, Nariman Behravesh, Michael Klein, and Jonathan Lash.? Books ran out (if you were there and didn’t get a copy, let us...
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The Next 4 Billion Launching Today
A quick reminder, if you may have forgotten: The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid will be released today at the International Finance Corporation.? C.K. Prahalad, Nariman Behravesh, Jonathan Lash, and Michael Klein will be speaking.? Check my post...
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The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
Discussions of base of the pyramid (BOP) markets have, until now, relied principally on business case studies and rough estimates of market size. On Monday, March 19, WRI and the NextBillion.net team (in conjunction with the IFC) will launch our publication, The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and...
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Rural Innovators: Closer to the Ground
I take pleasure in introducing three gentlemen who exemplify the spirit of innovation in rural India. These innovators demonstrated their ideas at the Rural Innovators event at Engineer 2007 - the national level symposium of NITK Surathkal.Annasaheb Udgavi is a farmer from Sadalga village in...
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BOP Literature Survey – Request for Proposals
"Growing Inclusive Markets” is a new multi-stakeholder initiative, led by the United Nations Development Programme, which strives to identify and examine the vast unmet potential at the base of the world economic pyramid-the population of 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a...
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BOP Job Announcement – Unitus COO
Unitus, Inc. is a Seattle, WA based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty using a venture capital model. Unitus also has offices in San Francisco and Bangalore, India and relies on innovative financial instruments and the resources of individuals and...
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Report from Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (2)
Guest blogger Miles Lasater is founder and COO of Higher One which provides financial services to colleges and students.? As creator of the Yale’s annual business plan competition, the Y50k, he was instrumental in ensuring that it has a Social Entrepreneurship category.? He has a hobby as...
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