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Looking Back On 9/11, Looking Forward to the Challenge of Inclusion
I was thinking of what to express as the United States enters a fifth year of reflection on the WTC attacks in 2001. Instead of getting into the charged debates over which countries were okay to invade, who has or has not told the truth and the like- instead of engaging in discussion over what...
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Inefficiency as Opportunity for the BOP
MIT’s entrepreneurship, innovation, and engineering for the BOP have been on our mind lately. Here’s another shout-out for the Techies. On September 21, the New York MIT Enterprise Forum will host Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World. The event...
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Lemelson-MIT Awards Sustainable Invention and Innovation
Fans of technical and sustainable innovation, take note - the Lemelson-MIT Awards are coming up again. For those who don?t know, the awards recognize inventors’ impact on economic and social well-being - to the tune of $500,000 (technology), $100,000 (sustainability), or $30,000 (student...
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New Volume Shows Why MFIs Should Be In the Remittances Business
As the flow of remittances has expanded massively in recent years, many in the private sector have taken advantage. While this has positive effects for facilitating formal transactions (rather than, say, having your cousin deliver money by hand), there has not been enough competition to keep...
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Measuring Change: Doing Business 07 Released
You can only change what you measure. Doing Business 2007, just released, offers good evidence of the wisdom of this epigram. Whatever issues you might have with the way the World Bank Group does its work, it would be hard to quarrel with the value they are bringing to business climate...
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Ethan Arpi – Our Intern’s Last Stand
As Labor Day came and went in the United States over the weekend, style-conscious clotheshorses put away their whites in favor of browns, greens, and greys; community pools closed their gates; barbeque grills were sheathed for the season. All are signs that summer has come and gone. We at...
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News Roundup: Much Ado About India
The BOP business news from India brings readers updates on three firms whose names ought to ring a bell - Arvind, Hindustan Lever, and ITC. All three were featured in “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” and have been the subject of case studies, speeches, articles, and much...
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Is Open Source Hardware An Answer?
You have probably heard of Open Source Software - software developed by hackers and released into the community under licenses that freely allow copying and modification. Linux is a good example.David Rowe, an engineer from Adelaide, South Australia and a small team of hackers around the...
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