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The Ghetto Tax
In a report published last month, Matt Fellowes of the centrist Brookings Institution documents a “ghetto tax” paid by lower-income consumers in the United States ? essentially, proof that poor people in underserved areas pay more for basic goods and services. Sound familiar? In...
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Cleaning Up The Streets
?Shit business is serious business,? explains Otunba Gadaffi, founder of DMT, a Nigerian based mobile toilet provider.? And he is right?poor sanitation is a major problem in this burgeoning nation of over 130 million, causing an array of preventable diseases like dysentery and cholera.?...
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The Best Foot Forward
Feet are important to discussions of the BOP hypothesis. I?m not talking about feet as in the unit of length, but rather as those awkward appendages connected to your legs. From a base of the pyramid vantage point, which is the best foot forward?I did some thinking about this, and decided...
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In India, Weathermen Are the New Priests
In the United States, faith, along with the rest of American culture, has been industrialized, and is now manufactured and sold in the mega-church, an odd cross between a sports stadium and a big box store. But thankfully, for those of us who can?t find salvation beneath blaring florescent...
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Craig’s List for Emerging Economies
Emeka Okafor from the blog, Timbuktu Chronicles, recently wrote about an extraordinary service in Bangladesh, which promises to provide significant benefits to the BOP.? GrameenPhone Ltd., Bangledesh?s largest cellular provider, has announced a partnership with MIT-based CellBazaar to...
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New Meso-Finance Mechanisms in South Africa
In my relentless search to find reasons to move to the fair city of Cape Town (as if biodiversity-friendly winelands, Lion’s Head & the 12 Apostles, and?the World Cup semi-finals in 2010?weren’t enough), I regularly read?South Africa’s Mail & Guardian.? ?I am rarely...
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It’s Hard Out Here for a Shrimp Boat Captain
What do shrimp fishermen in Louisiana have in common with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso? Both have suffered serious financial setbacks because of American farm subsidies. And with the breakdown of the Doha Round earlier this week, both will continue to suffer well into the foreseeable...
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That Catfish Sure Tastes Good
This Saturday the New York Times jumped on the biodiesel bandwagon, publishing this article on Jim Nornman and his experience driving a car powered by vegetable oil.? Here at Nextbillion, we have covered biodiesel and its use in the developing world on two separate occasions?in Rwanda?s...
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