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I’m finally back home. While I enjoy almost every aspect of being on the go, traveling also implies an almost inevitable distraction from routines and habits that I cherish, many of which relate to reading. My mailbox was packed with good stuff and I’m currently working on a few pieces I thought I’d share for you to catch in the coming weekend.
Here’s Some Reading for the WeekendBlog Post
Reconciling social motives with profitable means of achieving them is a fundamental, underlying tension - a constructive one, I think - in the development through enterprise space. We’re far short of consensus, but more and more people seem to buy the "why" and the "whether." What we’re discussing is increasingly the "how." This was reflected...
Reconciling Social Motives and Profitable MeansBlog Post
An article in The Economist brought to my attention an interesting debate about the possibility of an emerging ’bubble’ in microfinance. While news of a bubble is in itself extremely interesting, the argument also highlights a fundamental weakness we currently face in analyzing the BoP space: The lack of quantitative data to back our arguments.
Anecdotes and Analysis: The Microfinance ?Bubble?Blog Post
BoP business development by definition should engage the community in the process from the outset. However, extractives projects can be scoped, planned, funded and largely executed before the community is involved in any meaningful way. That begs the question of whether BoP business development and the extractives industry are compatible.
BoP Business Development and the Extractives IndustryBlog Post
In the final plenary session of SoCap’s packed Day 2, I listened as the panel discussed "From IRIS to GIIRS to New Money". After a full day of hearing the topic of metrics raised in forum after forum, from break-outs to hallway conversations to tweets and blog reviews of earlier sessions, I was especially intrigued to hear this session.
Social Capital Markets 09: The New Money SpectrumBlog Post
A summary from a panel featuring socially-focused venture capitalists and investment firms and the lessons they have learned over 10 years investing in social ventures, from small businesses to solar energy and micro-finance.
Social Capital Markets 2009: Lessons LearnedNews
The 2009 Pioneers of Prosperity Caribbean program is pleased to announce that Bulkan Timber Works of Guyana has taken the competition’s grand prize. Alternative Insurance Company of Haiti and Totally Male Ltd. of Jamaica were also recognized. On September 11, 2009, ten finalists from seven countries across the Caribbean competed for a grant of US $100,000 to invest in the growth of their company, and the prestigious title of Pioneer of Prosperity. The Honorable Orette Bruce Goldin...
Pioneers of Prosperity Select 2009 WinnersBlog Post
Last week, I attended a workshop on "Franchising in Frontier Markets" hosted by IFC and the John Templeton Foundation. More than 50 investors, consultants, and practitioners using franchise-based methods to serve BoP markets participated in what turned out to be a very interactive day - very few presentations, and lots of talking...
Franchising in Frontier Markets
