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Microsoft Extends a Helping Hand to India’s Salt Miners
In an earlier post I made the point that technology alone will not lead to moral progress.? Indeed, it takes the proper set of social institutions and cultural practices for technology to be leveraged to achieve just ends.? In Kharagodha, a small and arid salt-mining village in western India,...
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Dumpster Diving in China
When I was a college student my roommates would occasionally bring home a dozen or more loaves of free bread, which they found while rummaging through the dumpster located behind the nearest Companion Bakery. Although they were just amateur dumpster divers, my roommates knew exactly where and...
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India’s Model T: Tata’s $2000 Car Out by 2008
Update: Lee Schipper, Director of Research for WRI’s Center for Sustainable Transport, comments below on the implications of a low-cost car for India.A mass-produced, affordable auto revolution is coming to India. Or, as BoingBoing suggests, ?make way for the hundred dollar laptop of...
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Kiva’s Secret Weapon: Lower Cost of Capital
The second?part of NextBillion?s interview with Kiva focuses two issues that drive the organization?s success: Kiva?s value proposition within the greater microfinance community and strong partnerships that connect Kiva to its entrepreneurs. As many of you have read, microfinance has a...
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Moral Growth
Writing during the US?s dismal performance at the World Cup, David Brooks, liberals? favorite conservative, threw a low blow in an attempt to level the playing field. ?No American player has managed to put a ball into the back of the net, but the U.S. team does lead the world in one vital...
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Remittances Policy That Works: The Case Of Ghana.
Abstract: In an opinion piece, Yaw Sophism discusses Ghana’s policy for remittances....
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$100 Laptop Now $140
Most of the news about the One Hundred Dollar Laptop has been positive ? and for good reason. It?s a great design project being done by some great designers (my father?s an MIT alum; I am required by birth to promo the place). There have, however, always been some lingering questions...
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June Cleaver with a PayPal Account – Kiva Hits the One Year Mark
With my head spinning from the loftiness of an IDB infused week, I happily returned to reality in a conversation with Kiva, which--as many of you know--is leveraging micro-finance institutions (MFIs) to create virtual connections between investors and micro-entrepreneurs. This doesn’t sound...
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