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Is the Hundred Dollar Laptop a Real Business?
It was reported last week that Nicolas Negoponte and Libya reached an agreement to supply 1.2 million of the $100 computers to Libyan schoolchildren for $250 million. I was intrigued by the agreement, the math for which points up one of the problems with the effort - the computer itself may...
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Zambia Journal: Introducing Guest Blogger Brian McBrearity
I?m happy to introduce NextBillion ally Brian McBrearity as our latest guest blogger. Brian is a reformed Wall Street asset manager ? now he?s working in the SME development and financial services field as he tries to apply his finance background to serve the BOP. He recently accepted a...
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Selling in China
For NextBillion readers interested in China, Knowledge @ Wharton has a special section out this month that will be of interest. Selling in China is the third in a series of reports on the world?s most populous nation; this issue covers a range of topics, including the dichotomy between rich...
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Muhammad Yunus Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus, who developed the idea of microfinance and later founded the Grameen Bank, is the 2006 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is not his first peace prize. The Wikipedia entry is already updated to reflect today?s news; I suspect the mainstream media will be saturated with...
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Rising Ventures: Berni Labs offers alternatives for Mexico’s low-income farmers
The crop duster crashing and dumping pesticides into the Los Mochis water supply was bad enough. But when a warehouse blaze released toxic agrochemicals into the air, causing respiratory illnesses among farmers and their families in the area, Jorge Berni knew there had to be a better way. ...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Seema Patel
We?re happy to introduce Seema Patel, who has joined the NextBillion.net team as a part-time intern.? When she?s not working with us here at WRI, Seema is a senior project manager at ITF consulting.? She received her master?s degree in International Relations and Environmental Policy...
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Wharton’s Africa Business Forum
The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania will convene a 1-day conference on November 11 in Philadelphia. Africa: Building New Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy features panel sessions on a slew of NextBillion-related topics: consumer goods, private equity,...
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LifeStraw Catching On
With more than a few mentions on NextBillion during its development, it was nice to see LifeStraw covered in today’s New York Times.The LifeStraw sells for $3, is approximately the size of a paper towel tube (i.e. 25cm long by 29mm in diameter), and filters out 99.99% of bacteria, the...
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