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  Remittances Gaining Relevance in BoP Development Efforts

  Remittances - transfers of money from foreign workers to their home countries - have been a critical means of financial support for generations. These flows have generally been conducted away from formal markets. However, as more and more workers move abroad, the volume of remittances sent back...

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  The First Consolidation Wave of Mobile Phone Operators in Emerging Countries: The Battle for MTN

  Many regular NextBillion.net visitors will have noticed that the News Section has been nearly monopolized of late by news about the takeover battle surrounding mobile operator MTN, followed by a lull in events. For those who have not had the time or patience to track this news, what follows is...

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  Why the Base of the Pyramid Movement Needs God

  In my previous post, I suggested that BoP enterprises should consider partnering with faith based organizations (FBOs) on the ground, particularly in countries where religion plays a large role. In this post, I?d like to put forth another distinct, but similar idea: FBOs in the West can play...

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  Lapdesk, Part II: An Interview with Shane Immelman

  Welcome to part II of the ?Endeavor? series. You may recall that part I involved a rather interesting conversation with Dan Isenberg, a Harvard Business School professor who had written a case about Endeavor entrepreneur, Lapdesk. Given that dialogue, it seemed only natural to continue...

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  Do You Have To Be Rich To Be Green?

  Guest blogger Tracy Smith is a communications officer for E+Co, an organization which empowers local SMEs that supply clean and affordable energy in developing countries. Tracy has an undergraduate degree in economics and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. By Tracy...

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  Trust the Development Experts ? All 7 Billion

  Why should we care about the debacle of a World Bank report? Because this report represents the final collapse of the development expert paradigm that has governed the west’s approach to poor countries since the second world war. All this time, we have hoped a small group of elite thinkers can figure out how to raise the growth rate of a whole economy. If there was something for development experts to say about attaining high growth, this talented group would have ...

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  Quagmire to goldmine?

  BRAZIL has long been a thorn in the side of the global drugs companies. The country’s vibrant generics industry has often trampled over their patents. As recently as last year, its government threatened to invoke compulsory licensing (a legal mechanism that, in effect, legitimises such trampling) to browbeat a foreign drugs firm into offering huge discounts. And Brazil’s state-funded researchers have devised some impressive drugs, including a new therapy for malaria (see article). Sma...

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  NextBillion Announces Partnership With Acumen Fund

  By Derek Newberry and Rob Katz NextBillion.net is happy to announce that, as of today, the site will be co-owned and co-managed by World Resources Institute and its newest partner, Acumen Fund. Since NextBillion.net’s launch in 2005, we have admired Acumen Fund’s innovative approach...