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Leaders in the Field Weigh in on the Future of Microfinance (I)
The Center for Global Development?s (CGD) event this morning, Eyes beyond the Prize: Envisioning the Next Thirty Years of Microfinance, offered diverse and fascinating perspectives on the future of microfinance. This post will be done in installments to capture the wide breadth of ideas...
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Making Low Cost PCs Work for SMEs
Mobile phone companies have found innovative ways to give consumers at the bottom of the pyramid the services they need in a cheap, barebones way that takes few resources or knowledge to use. Despite efforts to tailor designs to the BOP in a similar way, the makers of cheap PCs are far from...
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Rwanda Journal: Funds for East Africa’s SMEs
Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series. This is the third post in the series; read the first two here and here.In high-income...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Nitin Rao
We are happy to announce that Nitin Rao has joined the NextBillion.net team as a blogger and writer. Nitin was born and raised in Bangalore, India. He is studying for a B. Tech. at the National Institute of Technology - Karnataka at Surathkal, which is considered to be one of the best...
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Gates Foundation Supports M-Banking, IFC Hiring BOP Managers
The BOP universe continues to stay busy, and the multilaterals seem to be leading the pack in certain ways. First, PSDBlog points to a CGAP press release; the Gates Foundation is granting $24 million over 4 years to scale up CGAP’s mobile banking work.? From the release: To identify...
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Friday Roundup: Seen, Heard, Read Edition
It’s been a busy week here at NextBillion ? we’re finishing the manuscript on a soon-to-be-published book detailing market size and business strategy at the base of the pyramid. Meanwhile, we’ve had to keep track of all the comings and goings at the World Economic Forum, in and...
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Event: Microfinance in the Next Thirty Years
The Center for Global Development (CGD) is hosting an event next Wednesday entitled Eyes beyond the Prize: Envisioning the Next Thirty Years of Microfinance. The talk will look at critical issues for microfinance institutions including: What changes will technology bring? Which new products...
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Fewer Celebrities, More BOP at Davos
The news from the start of the World Economic Forum this year is full of stories from climate change to hedge funds to a dearth of celebrities- interspersed with the occasional obligatory discussion of poverty. Yet hints that the world?s economic and political powerhouses are starting to take...
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