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As I discussed in Tuesday?s post, there are an increasing number of businesses producing health-improving consumer products that are affordable to customers at the base of the pyramid. Today, I will highlight a few more examples, including specialized food items meant to improve nutrition,...
Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Protection – Part IIBlog Post
Despite their best efforts, government and NGO programs have generally failed to achieve the scale and sustainability necessary to provide adequate and affordable healthcare to many living below the poverty line. But as the Time Global Health Summit illustrated, the role of the private sector...
Healthcare Delivery: Franchised SolutionsNews
The founder of eBay and his wife have donated $100 million to Tufts University, the school’s largest gift ever, but also one with a unique twist: All the money will be invested in microfinance, which involves tiny loans as low as $40, designed to help poor people in the developing world start small businesses, such as selling hand-woven cloth or goat’s milk. Pierre and Pam Omidyar intend the gift to generate healthy returns for their alma mater and in so doing to demonstrate ...
Gift to Tufts will aid world’s smallest firmsNews
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have commenced a reinvigorated campaign to jump-start the micro-finance sub-sector of the economy. Working in collaboration with other stakeholders such as the CitiGroup Foundation and Nigerian commercial banks the CBN and UNDP held the first edition of the Nigerian Edition of the Global Microenterpreneurship Award, in Abuja, on Tuesday, to mark this year’s International Year of Micro-credit (IY...
CBN, UNDP Rejuvenate MicrofinancingNews
Ensemble 2005, the annual festival of XLRI, would be held at Jamshedpur on November 12 and 13 in a format that would be different from the general B-school Festival format in the sense that it would have events for students, corporates, and B-school aspirants. The games and case studies would be taken as usual from real life incidents and problems faced by sponsors of the event, a release issued by XLRI said. Industry stalwarts would discuss the enormous potential of the ’Bottom o...
Industry stalwarts discuss the enormous potential of the ’Bottom of the Pyramid’ concept in the IndiBlog Post
What is the impact of development aid on economic growth?This critical question has been the topic of debate among development experts, economists, policymakers, civil society, and business ? especially here on NextBillion.net. Some answers may be emerging, and they point out that...
“Sad study” highlights aid’s ineffectivenessNews
Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone supplier, sees China’s vast less-developed regions as a major driving force behind its future growth, a company executive said. David Ho, president of Nokia (China) Investment Co Ltd, said Nokia will make substantial efforts to introduce low-price mobile phones to China to tap the less-developed markets. Mobile phone subscriber growth in big cities is continuing to slow since market penetration is already h...
Nokia sees chance in underdeveloped areasNews
Winning Brands, Winning Formats are Keys to Success LONDON, 11 October 2005 ? Seven countries, China, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, Romania and Bulgaria, offer the strongest investment opportunities for retail and consumer companies according to the fourth edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Retail & Consumer study titled, From Beijing to Budapest: Winning Brands, Winning Formats. Of the seven priorities, Russia, Romania and Bulgaria joined the list for the...
China, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, Romania and Bulgaria Offer Greatest Investment Opportunities
