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African Aid Projects That Work: Partnerships on the Ground, Not Donations from a Distance
Not long ago, an unnamed global corporation decided that it wanted to help children in the southern African nation of Namibia -- and so it spent millions to donate scores of new computers and television sets for the classrooms in a particular region of this poverty-plagued, mostly rural nation. They should have talked to someone like Jonathan Johnnidis first. Currently pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania w...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report Studies How Mobile Phones Affect Poverty
DIRSI (Regional Dialogue on the Information Society) has released the final draft on its report about mobile phones and poverty in Latin America and The Caribbean . The report abstract notes that access to telephony for low-income groups is largely based on different strategies of use around mobile telephony. The main goal of this research project was ...
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Barclays strategy to tap bottom of pyramid unlike peers
Sensing a huge potential in the mass segment, foreign banking major Barclays Bank will soon launch a banking product aimed at the unbanked and under-banked segment in the country. Unlike its other foreign peers which entered the Indian market by tapping high networth clients, Barclays, a lat...
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A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
...But nearly three years later, only about 2,000 students in pilot programs have received computers from the One Laptop project. An order from Uruguay for 100,000 machines appears to be the only solid deal to date with a country, although Mr. Negroponte says he’s on the verge of sealing an order from Peru for 250,000. The first mass-production run, which began this month in China, is for 300,000 laptops, tens of thousands of which are slated to go to U.S. consumers. Mr. Negroponte’s goa...
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En el Punto de Mira: Somos Pobres, Pero Somos Muchos
Spanish language magazine Compromiso Empresarial (Oct. 2007) has two pieces specifically focused on the importance and growth of BOP markets worldwide: En el Punto de Mira: Somos Pobres, Pero Somos Muchos (Spanish only) Entrevista con Rob Katz (Spanish only) See the attached files, or sign up to ...
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- Latin America
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Race to the bottom
Business Strategy Review Autumn 2007 Value at the Bottom of the Pyramid By Juan Luis Martinez and Mar?a Carbonell C.K. Pralahad’s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?about those with an annual income of $2,000 or less?is the inspiration behind the first of two articles from London Business Sch...
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The Base of the Latin American Pyramid
By Otaviano Canuto Thomas Trebat was right when he remarked here yesterday an enormous share of the Latin American wealth generated in recent years has piled up in the hands of a privileged few that may or may not be playing a useful role in turning the present boom into self-sustained econ...
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William James Foundation to Provide $40,000 in Cash and Prizes to Socially Responsible Business Plan
The William James Foundation announces its 5th Annual Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition. This competition supports entrepreneurs who are committed to multiple-bottom line businesses (people, planet, profit) by providing entrants with expert feedback and over $40,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to the top plans. Past winners have included business ventures in a wide array of fields ranging from an environmentally sustainable low-income housing developer; portable vaccine p...
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