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Welcome, WSJ – A Next Billion Retrospective
As a site dedicated for the past year and a half to the “next billion” and the business strategies that can empower them as micro-consumers and micro-producers, its good to see the Wall Street Journal using that headline in a mainstream business story about tech firms and their...
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Tech Firms See Next Billion Users, Customers
Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured a front-section story, Tech Firms Woo Next Billion Users (subscription required), describing the aggressive BOP strategies of tech firms Intel and Microsoft. In it, we learn that Microsoft is rolling out 50,000 entrepreneur-run computer kiosks...
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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way – China in Africa
Elizabeth Economy and Karen Monaghan write in the International Herald Tribune (The perils of Beijing’s Africa strategy) that China is quickly creating blowback in Africa despite its purportedly “hands off politics” approach.? You would be hard-pressed to design a more anti-BOP...
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Remittances and Development – More to Say?
Let me share with you my state of mind after finishing a careful reading of the full World Bank report on Latin American remittances, Close to Home: The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America. On the one hand, it is a closely reasoned, and (as far as this non-economist can...
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Remittances: The New York Times Gets It
Today’s New York Times has an editorial “Wiring Development” that, to my mind, picks up on what is really important from the IADB remittance study, “Sending Money Home", namely the opportunity for Latin American banks to turn remittance recipients (and senders, too) into...
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Proverbs at Work: From Burnt-Out Shells to Coffee Machines
While it may seem clich?, I?ve always enjoyed the proverb advising that “when life deals you lemons, make lemonade.” The phrase was my first thought when I saw a recent story out of Ethiopia about Azmarew Zeleke?s burgeoning coffee business; in this case, replace...
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Remittance News Coverage Missing the Mark
I came in today thinking, “wow, what a range of takes on the new World Bank study (pdf) on Latin American remittances released yesterday.” We reported last week on the IADB remittance report and the reaction from CNN and Lou Dobbs, in which an immigration and values debate provided...
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Hunter Lovins, Maria Otero, and Product RED: NetImpact 2006
Sheri Willoughby is a Senior Manager in the Markets and Enterprise Program at WRI. She holds an MS in chemistry from University of California San Diego and a MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Where do MBA students and alumni go to get inspired,...
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