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On Wednesday, I attended a presentation by Jessica Cohen on her doctoral research experiment (co-authored with Pascaline Dupas) about distribution schemes for anti-malarial long-lasting bednets. The randomized experiment, conducted in rural, western Kenya, aimed to test the difference between...
To Give or Not to Give: Academics Study Bednet DistributionBlog Post
What’s in a name, a brand, a catchphrase? In some sense, everything. But a brand/name/phrase is only as good as the content behind it. So when U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently declared 2008 to be “the year of the ’bottom billion’,” I paid attention - after...
Will 2008 Be The Year of ’Next Billion’ or ’Bottom Billion’?News
The soon-to-be-released $2,500 People’s Car is a natural fit for India, but don’t expect rivals to match it. By David Welch and Nandini Lakshman, with Ian Rowley in Tokyo Forget about sleek styling, a powerful engine, or electronic gadgets in the dashboard. Gurdeep Randhawa is lusting after a bare-bones car that’ll soon be available in India. The 39-year-old mill manager in a Mumbai suburb buzzes to work on a $1,350 scooter and pile...
My Other Car Is a TataNews
By Mritiunjoy Mohanty Tata Motors will unveil its Rs 1-lakh (Rs 100,000) car at the 9th New Delhi Auto Expo on January 10. The commercial launch of the car is slated for the second-half of 2008. Both events are keenly anticipated by India’s burgeoning middle class, in general, and the auto industry, in particular. Not since the launch of the Maruti 800 in 1983 has a new car model been more keenly awaited. And just as the Maruti 800 before it, if the Tata Rs 1-l...
Why criticising the Rs 1-lakh car is wrongNews
Independent research and advisory firm, Financial Insights, has announced the release of a new report examining the growing use and effectiveness of innovative technology solutions in microfinance initiatives. Abhishek Kumar, senior research analyst, Asia/Pacific banking advisory service, notes, Banks in Indonesia and India have emerged as leaders in deploying innovative technologies to grow their microfinance businesses. These banks have shown that technologies like biometrics...
Smart Technology Will Help MicrofinanceNews
Bijapurkar roughly divides Indian consumers into four categories by their income and consumption patterns ? 60 million people with high purchasing power, 100 million well on the road to that level of consumption, 100 to 150 million who have just started that journey, and the rest who are at the bottom of the pyramid or BOP, in Bijapurkar’s shorthand. However, though its members earn less than a dollar a day, the BOP also forms a significant consumer base, says Bijapurkar, and bus...
The City Market that Is a Microcosm of How India ShopsBlog Post
Guest blogger Grace Augustine is a Research Associate with the William Davidson Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to joining WDI, she worked in strategy & operations consulting for Deloitte Consulting. Grace completed her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan where she...
Article Review: “Scents & Sensibility” Reveals USAID’s BoP Blind SpotsNews
Higher growth of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can help cut poverty to a satisfactory level by eliminating various prejudices against labour intensive and creating jobs for the skilled manpower in the SME sector. This was revealed in the just released Bangladesh Bank annual report for fiscal 2006-07. The report said, the key reasons behind the SMEs are not entering into manufacturing are financial constrains, dismal state of utilities, technology and policy discri...
Bangladesh Bank report says: Development of SMEs can curb poverty
