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Treasure Hunt at the Bottom of the Pyramid
When leaders like YC Deveshwar, Subodh Bhargava and Arun Maira gather to discuss sustainability issues, they mean business. Brainstorming in Agra earlier this week, they not only discussed how sustainability challenges can be converted into business opportunities, but also unveiled their vision for the common good. The first ’Business Leaders Programme: Strategies and Leadership for Creating Sustainable Organisat-ions’, August 10-14, was attended by a host of business leaders,...
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SME Policy
The long awaited first-ever small and medium enterprises (SME) policy was finally launched by the government on 15th August, 2007. Speaking at a press conference, the Minister for Industries Production and Special Initiatives, Jahangir Khan Tareen, flanked by the Governor of State Bank and the Secretary for Industries, revealed its salient features, emphasising that the new policy aims to create globally competitive SMEs with a hassle-free business environment and to ensure provision of modern i...
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- South Asia
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Narrow Ideology Keeps Taps Dry
A BILLION people lack clean water and 2,6-billion lack basic sanitation, but the obstacles they face usually have more to do with ideology than practicality, as we learn in Stockholm where nearly 2500 experts have gathered for World Water Week. Even though private water services deliver clean and safe water to millions around the world, many politicians and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) oppose profit being made from ?essential resources? such as water. Oxfam says: Rich country gover...
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PM: Development Plans are not Only for Big Corporations
Development plans for the country are not designed to benefit only big corporate companies and rich individuals but as many Malaysians as possible, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The Prime Minister wants to see as many Malaysians, from all levels, to participate and benefit directly from the development plans that had been laid out. KOTA BARU: Development plans for the country are not designed to benefit only big corporate companies and rich individuals ...
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- Investing
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Egyptian Entrepreneurs Struggle Against Culture, Lack of Capital
Dr. Khaled Awad is a risk-taker. A doctor by training, he decided at age 26 to give up a secure position in one of Egypt’s state-run hospitals to do something considered crazy by most of his countrymen: Start his own business. Awad, whose company transmits stock market data directly to mobile phones, is so unusual in Egypt that business people and academics are still trying to agree on a common Arabic word for entrepreneur. CAIRO, Egypt: Dr. Khaled Awad is ...
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The Most Successful Daily
Jos Kuper of South Africa’s Daily Sun on Launching a ’Working Class’ Paper Market researcher Jos Kuper was head of marketing and media research for the South African unit of the Irish media chain Independent Group when she and Deon du Plessis unsuccessfully tried to interest that company in a tabloid aimed at working-class black South Africans. She later helped him pitch the project, successfully, to Naspers Ltd. Ms. Kuper spoke via email with The Wall Street Journal&...
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- Wall Street Journal
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Wal-Mart plans a slow ?hockey stick? curve in India
Wal-Mart is going slow in India. Its executives of course won?t admit this, but it is showing no hurry to begin selling in a country where its every move meets opposition . This was not the scenario envisaged by its Indian partner, Sunil Mittal of Bharti Enterprisers, when he decided to link up with Wal-Mart (WMT) at the end of last year in preference to Britain?s Te...
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- Fortune
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Smart money for India?s rural poor
India?s Finance Ministry and Planning Commission are looking into ways of using electronic smart cards to transform the distribution of relatively small amounts of government money to India?s 220 million people who live below the poverty line, and maybe to 200-300 million more who are only marginally better off. This would make it much more difficult for bureaucrats, politicians and middlemen to siphon off the funds as they move down the distribution chain. ?We alr...
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- Asia Pacific
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