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Rwanda: The Village Phone Comes to Rwanda
Excerpt: The Grameen Foundation of USA, in collaboration with MTN Rwanda, is re-energising its Village Phone scheme to bring mobile telephones to rural communities where no telecom services have existed before....
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Wireless: From zero to 3G – A cellphone utopia?
Executives in the cellphone and computer industries are fond of speaking about bridging the digital divide, the gap between people with access to technology and those without. But translating the talk into action is not easy. In addition, the benefits of high-tech gadgetry for the poor often are not evident. How do you bring Internet access to remote villages in Africa? And are people’s lives going to improve once they can get online? The GSM Association, a trade group that represents...
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India’s next test: spreading prosperity
Excerpt: Much has been written about the incredible strides India has taken since 1991, when it opened up its markets to foreign investors and slashed regulations. With 6 percent to 8 percent growth rates over the past decade, India has become a hot spot for investors, a dynamo in the outsourcing and high-tech industries, and a competitor for headlines with that other emerging economic power, China. Yet, while India has changed dramatically - with a rising consumer econom...
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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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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- remittances
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Globe Talk: Mobile banking as aid tool
Excerpt: Mobile phones are becoming commonplace enough in some of the remotest parts of the world, much to the delight of both private companies and public policymakers. For phone manufacturers and service providers, some of the globe’s poorest people have turned out to be one of their most profitable demographic groups, while for international development agencies, the proliferation of mobile handsets is one key means to bridge the ever-increasing technological divide between rich and poor....
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Development bank seeks new approach to Latin America’s problems
Excerpt: With leftist politicians on the rise throughout Latin America, Washington policymakers are turning their sights on the left-behind majorities fueling the populist surge. It is the latest struggle for the hearts and minds of people in a region swept first by free market reforms favored by the U.S. government and now buffeted by a shift to more home-grown policies that sometimes fly in the face of the United States. Sensing a seismic shift in South American sentimen...
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- Latin America
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Tata promises Rs 1 lakh car by 2008
Excerpt: Tata Motors on Friday said it would launch the much-touted Rs one lakh car in early 2008, as the company had completed its styling and designing and tested the prototypes within the plant. Tata Group Chief Ratan Tata told shareholders that the launch of the car would create a new paradigm in low-cost personal transport, carve out a new market segment and reach a broader base of the pyramid. ...
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- South Asia
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WDI’s Ted London Selected as Finalist for Best Dissertation Award
Excerpt: Ted London, William Davidson Institute (WDI) director of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) research initiative and a faculty member at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, has been selected as a finalist for the Barry M. Richman Dissertation Award....