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Interview with Liza Kimbo, Director of CFWshops Kenya
A poised, articulate individual, Liza Kimbo, Director of CFWshops Kenya, seemed just like the kind of person who could lead a successful BOP enterprise. Before the holidays, Liza delivered a presentation about her organization at a brownbag hosted by the Grassroots Business Initiative at the...
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A Condominium for Squatters – Land Reform in Sri Lanka
Ashoka Fellow Darin Gunesekera has succeeded in securing deeds to a brand new condominium to more than 670 families ? 4,000 people - in Sri Lanka who formerly lived in a slum. Property and regulatory system reform has gained momentum in recent years, and this model suggests significant...
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Rising Ventures: BioCentinela Offers Hope for a Troubled Industry
Aquaculture was supposed to be the next Green Revolution, a marine version of the push to “modernize” and streamline agriculture in the developing world.? The results have drawn comparisons to the fallout, both positive and negative of corporate agriculture that deserve mentioning....
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Global Philanthropy Forum 2007 – Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship
Momentum continues to build for business’ role in development.? The venerable Global Philanthropy Forum will hold its annual, invitation-only conference from April 11 to 13 of this year.? The conference’s title?? Financing Social Change: Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship.?...
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Book and Blog Reviews – To Read and Not To Read
For many suburbanites, success is sometimes measured by one’s ability to keep up with the Joneses.? For me, the clich? changes only slightly ? to keeping up with the Christines.? My friend and colleague Christine Bowers of the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog has an...
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Community Engagement Spurs Innovative Program for Day Laborers
Montgomery County in Maryland is struggling with community backlash from efforts to provide employment structures and services to day laborers. According to yesterday?s Washington Post, city officials are hoping to eventually alleviate the tension by training workers to run their own...
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BOP Strategy in Action – Lessons from Hutchinson-Essar
An article in last Friday?s International Herald Tribune details the business strategy behind frenzied takeover bids for Indian mobile phone company Hutchinson-Essar by Vodafone, Reliance, Essar, and others.? Further into the article, writer Anand Giridharadas describes the BOP strategies of...
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The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of MIT?s Poverty Action Lab, published a working paper back in October 2006 called The Economic Lives of the Poor. I am not usually one to urge an economics paper on anyone, but I will break from tradition here. Print this paper, take it home this...
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