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Globalization Must Benefit Bottom Billion Of Poor

This year must be devoted to helping the bottom billion of the world’s poorest to tap into global economic growth, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today. In a globalizing world, we require an international economic environment that fosters development, Mr. Ban said to UNCTAD’s Executive Committee, which is gearing up for ...

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Scoop (link opens in a new window)

Negocios en mercados pobres

Crear riqueza es mejor que repartir riqueza. Dan raz?n a este planteamiento un n?mero creciente de personas que, en distintas partes del mundo, se empe?an en aportar al desarrollo de los pa?ses menos favorecidos. La creencia tradicional es que los negocios se enfoquen en la parte de la poblaci?n con recursos. Seg?n el Banco Mundial, el sector privado descuida la oportunidad de negocios que representan los 4.000 millones de pobres que hay en el mundo, mercado que representa unos $5 ...

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Nacion.com (link opens in a new window)

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Lessons in development

To judge by their activities, one might think some MBA students at Cornell’s Johnson School in the state of New York were pursuing a degree in international development. Their projects range from water purification technologies for poor African communities to a sustainable tourism initiative in Croatia. Students are required to apply social, economic and environ...

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Financial Times (link opens in a new window)

Concibe tu estrategia para los m?s pobres como una innovaci?n de negocio

Robert Katz I Responsable de inversiones en proyectos de BOP de Acumen Fund y analista del World Resource Institute. Juanma Roca Robert Katz, autor del famoso libro Los pr?ximos 4.000 millones y uno de los mayores expertos del mundo en la denominada base de la pir?mide o bottom of the pyramid (BOP), ha participado esta semana en una jornada organizada por la Fundaci?n Compromiso Empresarial y Accenture sobre C?mo hacer negocios en la base de la pir?mide.

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Gaceta de Los Negocios (link opens in a new window)

Giving the Poor a Means to Work

Most books about poverty are downright depressing. The figures?1 billion people live on less than $1 a day, according to the U.N. Development Program?are depressing. The complexity of the problem?poverty is connected to poor health is connected to lack of clean drinking water is connected to lack of education?is daunting. And spend any time at, say, the Web site of the World Bank, the organization that’s Working for a World Free of Poverty, according to its tagline, and you st...

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Business Week (link opens in a new window)

When the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty

Muhammad Yunus is a humble man who would resist being compared to Mahatma Gandhi. But the two have much in common as campaigners for social progress. While Gandhi’s goal was the end of colonialism, Yunus’ is just as grand: He means to reform capitalism to make it a tool for ending poverty. Think of him as Gandhi with a BlackBerry ( RIMM ). Yunus won the Nobel Peace ...

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BusinessWeek (link opens in a new window)

Expertos creen en el potencial de las personas con bajos ingresos para hacer negocio “con” ellos y n

El investigador del ’think tank’ World Resources Institute, Robert Katz, consider? hoy un gran negocio hacer negocio con las personas de menos recursos, con los ’pobres’ --que no de los ’pobres’-- gracias a su potencial, desconocido muchas veces por formar parte de lo que se llama la base de la pir?mide y no considerarse clientes por parte de las empresas, sino simples beneficiarios, en muchas ocasion...

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Europe Press Wire Services (link opens in a new window)

Entrepreneurs Come Out of the Webwork

In parts of Africa it is not uncommon to see children playing on a merry-go-round near their schools. They are not just enjoying themselves, but are also helping to pump water: the energy created pumps clean water into a 2,500 litre tank at the rate of 1,400 litres an hour. This imaginative scheme, which has a website ( playpumps.org ) enabling people to see where the pumps are located, is a good example of appropriate technology. Given that water-related...

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Guardian (link opens in a new window)