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Greening the Base of the Pyramid? SustainAbility Weighs In.
What does green look like at the base of the economic pyramid? SustainAbility?s John Elkington and Mark Lee take that question on in a recent article, Fatigue of Nations, published by Grist. Elkington and Lee write in the engaging, tongue-in-cheek style embraced by Grist, and the result is...
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EarthTrends Announces Environmental Essay Competition
Here at NextBillion, we know the importance of good data to good research, which is why we have nothing but the deepest respect for our WRI cousins working on EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal. Now, they?ve gone and upped the ante ? literally. EarthTrends has opened up an...
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Redoubling billions, yet why can’t the West save Africa?
William Easterly’s Monday column in the Washington Post, “The West Can’t Save Africa,” was unreservedly caustic toward all the big talk and promises in 2005 about ending poverty. Easterly pinpoints a most fundamental error in Western aid’s orientation toward poverty alleviation--its...
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Google’s Big BOP Bet? Bringing Wi-Fi to Africa
Google announced this week that it has selected Abuja, Nigeria as one of about seven African cities the company will fully connect with a wireless network. Although described as one of Google’s “social responsibility projects", the announcement follows the company’s proposal last...
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Jhai’s take on ICT and development – a Social View
The following was written by Lee Thorn of the Jhai Foundation, originally sent to us via the Foundation’s newsletter.I think it might be useful to look at rural ICT and development from a social perspective. What works from this perspective? What doesn’t?What Jhai does is consulting...
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Davos Blurb
Unlike Pablo, I haven’t gotten explicit permission from Katherine Marshall of the World Bank to post an excerpt from her Davos notes, but I point you to PSDblog for her interesting summary of the last days’ discussions. Highlights: questions on why Africa isn’t higher on the agenda;...
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Open call for testimonials on African business climate
In response to the World Bank’s Doing Business Index of 2006, which ranks many African countries quite low (with a few exceptions among countries that are working on pro-business reforms), the BBC is requesting testimonials from people now doing or who have done business in an African...
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Will Open Source MFI Software Set the Industry Standard?
David at Microcapital reminds us of the Remote Transaction System, developed by Hewlett-Packard in conjunction with partner MFIs to widen the reach of financial services into rural areas. WRI was closely associated with the RTS project, at one time holding the intellectual capital in trust...
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