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  From Microfinance to Microinsurance

  By Andrew Kuper The financial services industry is facing unprecedented challenges worldwide due to excessive risk-taking. Complicated investment vehicles, insufficient transparency and excessive swapping of credit default risk have had a severe and pervasive impact on confidence. The world’s most advanced markets for financial services are reeling in uncertainty. Standing in stark contrast to these perilous markets is the largest, most underserved market per capita in ...

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  Guest Post: Better World by Design Conference

  Guest blogger Jocelyn Wyatt works for the design firm IDEO, leading its base of the pyramid projects. Prior to joining IDEO, Jocelyn was an Acumen Fund Fellow in Kenya. She holds a MBA from Thunderbird. Jocelyn blogs at Design and Reach.She sent us the following post following her attendance...

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  Inform, Involve, Empower – Nokia’s Service Mantra for Emerging Markets With Nokia Life Tools

  Nokia today announced that it plans to launch Nokia Life Tools, a range of innovative Agriculture information and Education services targeted to non-urban consumers. Designed specifically for emerging markets, Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints and provides services to this next generation of mobile users. Nokia plans to launch the service, beginning in the first half of 2009 with the Nokia 2323 classic and the Nokia 2330 classic as the lead devices in India and expand acros...

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  Learning about Market-Based Approaches for Reducing Poverty

  This fall,?Jocelyn Wyatt and I?taught a seven week course at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, which?spanned the worlds of philanthropy, business and many of the way points in between. We were both Acumen Fund Fellows (class of 2007) and as?part of our post-Fellowship goals each...

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  Talent Management at the Base of the Pyramid: More than Just the Social

  One of the biggest differences between social ventures and traditional for-profit ventures is that social ventures have an explicit social mission.? This difference can be a significant reason why one person chooses to work for a social venture over a traditional for-profit venture, regardless...

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  Pop!Tech: Brian McCarthy Builds Dream Homes for the Base of the Pyramid

  Brian McCarthy wants to live in a shipping container ? seriously.? And based on what I?ve seen of his work, I would be thrilled to live in one, too.? McCarthy is the founder of PFNC, a manufacturer and provider of affordable housing. PFNC stands for Por Fin, Nuestra Casa ? a Spanish...

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  An ?Easy? Step-by-Step Guide to Mobile Banking

  Last July CGAP issued a new report about the main building blocks for any bank that is thinking about offering mobile phone financial services to its customers. (Shame on me for doing this post so late). Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom? is, not surprisingly, very good report. After...

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  Social Capital Markets: Three Key Takeaways

  All good things must come to an end, including NextBillion.net’s coverage of last week’s Social Capital Markets conference.? SoCap was a 72-hour firestorm of ideas, conversations, impromptu meetings and a lot of blog posts ? 22, to be precise.? But at the end of the day, what does it...