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  Who in the world is entrepreneurial?

  So what are the best countries for entrepreneurs now? Where might American entrepreneurs think about setting up overseas? And where should they keep an eye out for global competitors? Some of the stars - such as Iceland and Denmark - might surprise you. Laggards include India. When Rodrigo Veleso launched ONE World Enterprises in Los Angeles last year, he quickly grasped why entrepreneurship was surging in the U.S. Within a week I had formed an LLC, incorporated in Delawar...

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  How Can Development Agencies Support Economic Development at the BoP?

  I had spent a lot of time trying to figure out how best to work at the base of the pyramid, even before I knew what BoP was. In 2003, I moved to Nigeria to pursue a career in international development, focusing on democracy and governance. Nearly two years of this work taught me that...

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  Emerging Market Investment Hits the Mainstream: Green Sectors Are Up Next

  The following article provides summary analysis of two events last week hosted by WRI-IFC and IFC-EMPEA. The conferences dealt with the issues of green investment in emerging economies and the broader growth of emerging economy investment, respectively. ...

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  Red Hat Launches Emerging Markets Roadmap

  Today Red Hat is announcing the upcoming availability of Red Hat Global Desktop. Global Desktop breaks through the price and performance barriers that have prevented many people from realizing the full benefits of state-of-the-art information technology. Red Hat and community members around the world recognized the need for a better solution to serve their local government and small business customers. This required removing the limitations that traditional desktop solutions imposed. In response...

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  Mobile4Good

  I encountered a strange dilemma while perusing the website of Mobile for Good. Charged with doing a write-up of the organization, I quickly realized that the folks at M4G have already done a great job of describing what they do. As a result, I?ve just reproduced text from the website here,...

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  IBM Launches BOP/Africa ThinkPlace Challenge

  IBM today launched its first-ever public ?ThinkPlace Challenge,? a three-week open forum designed to foster global collaboration on innovation opportunities and economic development issues facing the African continent. The top ideas generated through the ThinkPlace Challenge will help shape the agenda for IBM?s upcoming Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) focus on Africa, and provide longer-term input for IBM’s World Development Initiative (WDI). The GIO brings together more than 150...

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  Making Money, Making a Difference

  If you think that the women and men in the shiny suits, operating some of the world’s most powerful corporations, are just sitting around talking dollars and cents all day, then take a look at this report. Fortunately, there are executives out there who recognize the necessity in addressing serious global issues while doing some serious global business. One of the main points the authors make is that the discussion framed around corporate social responsibility has often ...

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  Bridging the Finance Gap for a Generation of “Philanthropreneurs”

  Late last month, Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deputy Managing Director of the ICICI Bank and Chairman of the New Ventures India Steering Committee announced that his bank would be launching a 100 crore fund for green businesses in emerging markets with a focus on SMEs. 100 crore is a serious commitment,...