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Microfinance and IT: Glass Half Full or Glass Half Empty?
Optimists often cite microfinance as a “development success story,” but realists know the truth - it suffers from high interest, misrepresentation of repayment rates, poor risk management, and insufficient scale. (More on the “dirty little secrets” of microfinance at the...
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IDB Launches Dedicated BOP Web Site
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) has just launched a web site dedicated to base of the pyramid strategies. Curious? Check out the site: This is not about providing the same, existing products and services that have been developed for the top of...
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India’s IT Ecosystem – A BOP Success Story?
Eric Cantor blogs over at Acumen Fund about the emerging ecosystem of businesses, NGOs, development folks, and government agencies working in the Indian BOP tech sector to close the digital divide and empower low-income communities. First, an excerpt - then my take: This ecosystem is made...
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BOP Geometry Lessons – From Pyramids to Circles
We talk a lot about pyramids - as in bottom of the pyramid and base of the pyramid - here at NextBillion. Now, (apologies to the math department at Council Rock High School) it?s time to start talking circles. As a follow up to last September?s Mexico conference, WRI, FMCN (New Ventures...
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Midwife on line two
When John and Rob aren’t blogging about cellphones improving incomes and health, they’re forwarding news links about...cell phones improving incomes and health. This IHT story (great find by Rob) vividly illustrates just how valuable connectivity is on an individual and village-wide...
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Development without the Dependency
I was just reading through the new issue of Co-Creations, the e-Newsletter by the Kenyan Development Network Consortium (KDNC). Amidst informative articles about sustainable eco-tourism and the current state of ICT development in Kenya is a fascinating piece about the provision of appropriate...
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Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
One of the fundamental principles for business engagement with the ?base of the pyramid? is to take a triple bottom line approach to business model development and evaluation. This approach takes into account environmental and social impacts in addition to ? and in support of ? the...
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Internship Opportunity: Emerging Markets Private Equity Association
Are you a graduate or undergraduate student interested in emerging markets and/or private equity? Want to spend the summer in Washington, D.C.? Well, EMPEA?s got a job for you: the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) is hiring 2 graduate interns and 1 undergraduate intern...
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