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  • Nestl? to Continue (BoP) Expansion in Philippines

    Consumer goods giant Nestlé Philippines Inc. will be investing more in the country in the coming years, in a bid to offer new products to more markets, particularly consumers on the extreme top and bottom of the economic pyramid. In an interview with the Inquirer on Thursday, Nestlé Philippines chairman and chief executive John Martin Miller said the company, while already serving a wide spectrum of Filipino consumers, still had markets that were largely untapped. "W...

    Source
    Inquirer.net (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Asia Pacific
  • The Universal Charger for Just About Any Gadget Battery

    ASPEN -- If you can pry the lithium ion battery out of your device, you can probably charge it with Fenix International’s noteworthy USB charger. And you won’t need an annoying adapter, either. The company developed the charger for use in Uganda and other developing world countries. It’s part of a whole suite of products Fenix designed to help local people to become one-stop electricity providers. But you can use it yourself, too. At the bottom of this post, you can see the ...

    Source
    The Atlantic (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 7.5 Lakh Families to Benefit from Cemex?s Housing Microfinance Program

    Patrimonio Hoy, the housing microfinance program of CEMEX, is expanding its lending program to low-income families in Mexico and four other Latin American countries with a partial credit guarantee of up to $10 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). As many as 750,000 families are expected to benefit over the next five years through this project. Patrimonio Hoy is one of Latin America’s social enterprises that provide low-income families earning of less than four tim...

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    Microfinance Focus (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Uncategorized
    Region
    Latin America
  • How NextDrop is Using Cell Phones, Crowdsourcing to Get Water to the Thirsty

    In many cities in developing countries, residents have piped water supplies. But there’s a catch: the water is only available through the pipes for a few hours at a time, and people have no way of knowing when that will be. As a result, residents (mostly women and the poor) spend their days just waiting for the water to arrive. NextDrop , one of the winners of the Knigh...

    Source
    Fast Company (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • How Africa Can Extract Big Benefits for Everyone from Natural Resources

    As the Natural Resource Charter holds its third annual workshop at the University Oxford, in the UK, this week, the combination of rising commodity prices and falling costs of communication technology presents Africa with an unprecedented opportunity to reduce poverty and fight corruption at the same time. T...

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    Guardian.co.uk (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Uncategorized
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Milk Storage Unit Uses Sun to Keep Cool

    Got chilled milk? That’s the unofficial slogan for Boston-based Promethean Power Systems, a company that this month received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop its innovative milk refrigeration system. Promethean’s target market is India, though it plans to expand to Africa and Latin America as soon as February. India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of milk; the country is home to some 70 million farmers who contribute to a mul...

    Source
    Boston.com (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Will Indian IT Companies’ Business Model Become Stagnant?

    BANGALORE: Indian IT companies, which rode the outsourcing wave to become large corporations, may lag a bit while becoming sustainable corporations that create fortune "with" the bottom of the pyramid, says management guru Stuart L Hart . The American academic who was in town recently, says: "From what I can see, there is a little bit of self-satisfaction and comfort with the current model. Maybe they are getting stuck in the outsourcing model like that is the endgame. But it is...

    Source
    The Economic Times (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Education
    Region
    South Asia
  • To Profit or Not to Profit. Is That the Question?

    I’ve been working in social business now for around fifteen years. I started out volunteering for a fairtrade social enterprise in Leeds. Except it didn’t call itself a social enterprise because the term hadn’t yet made it that far up north. We were a not-for-profit, and proud of it. I remember the pride I felt in telling people that we were not-for-profit. It was shorthand for "we’re the good guys". Privately I would question the motives of some of the people in the wor...

    Source
    Guardian.co.uk (link opens in a new window)
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