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"So, what do you think about the IEG report?” I was g-chatting with my friend Smita the other night when she brought up the World Bank. “What IEG report? What’s the IEG?” I replied, showing my ignorance of the latest Bank goings on (and of the acronym ? it stands for...
Doing Business Series Gets Slammed by World Bank WatchdogNews
It’s already launched in Kenya, Afghanistan and Tanzania. And now a mobile money-transfer service from Vodafone is to reach 40 million customers in India. Meanwhile, Microsoft Innovation Centres in Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda and Morocco are set to provide aspiring business people with the technology to launch new products. And in India, personalised commercial information is being texted to the mobile phones of thousands of farmers in their own language. These three groundbreakin...
Down to businessBlog Post
A key issue that the BoP development world currently faces is generating a tangible connection between markets, enterprise and the poor. After all, if we are going to alleviate poverty through enterprise, we require effective strategies that enable the BoP to participate in profitable business...
“Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor” – An Analysis of the ReportNews
Our mission is to build a health records system in support of direct patient care, on the ground for the very poorest of the poor, Dr Paul Biondich, a paediatrician at the Regenstrief Institute in the US and one of the co-founders of OpenMRS told the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet. OpenMRS was formed in 2004 and is a free application that has already been rolled out in many African countries, including, Kenya, South Africa and Rwanda. The system has been des...
Free medical tool tackles diseaseBlog Post
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...
Remittances Gaining Relevance in BoP Development EffortsBlog Post
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...
The First Consolidation Wave of Mobile Phone Operators in Emerging Countries: The Battle for MTNBlog Post
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...
Why the Base of the Pyramid Movement Needs GodBlog Post
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...
Lapdesk, Part II: An Interview with Shane Immelman
