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Chinese Activity in Africa, Part 2: The Path of Least Resistance
This post is the second in a two part series exploring China?s role in Africa?s development. Part 1 focused on the breakdown and impact of African exports to China, and Part 2 focuses on the role of China?s investment and imports into Africa.Investment It is no surprise that most...
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Chinese Activity in Africa, Part 1: Feeding the Dragon
This post is the first in a two part series exploring China?s role in Africa?s development. Part 1 focuses on the breakdown and impact of African exports to China, and Part 2 focuses on the role of Chinese investment and imports in Africa. I think that those of us who are interested in...
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Guest Post: Maya Nut Trees Make A Comeback in Central America
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Job: Director, Foundation & Corporate Relations, Root Capital
Editor’s Note: NextBillion and Acumen Fund ally Willy Foote dropped us a note - via Brian Trelstad - and asked us to circulate this opening. If you’re interested in Root Capital, be sure to watch their excellent video, which features Willy himself on the guitar. Position: Director,...
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Morning Roundup: Water Privatization and Dignified P2P Lending
There have been some interesting base of the pyramid-related topics afoot in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere lately, including a call for water privatization in developing countries and a self-critical blog post authored by the founder of a media-darling BoP startup. Without...
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“Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor” – An Analysis of the Report
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...
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Online Mentoring: Can It Go International?
As the search for developing market-based solutions for poverty alleviation continues, adequate entrepreneur training and support has been an ongoing issue. In fact, the Aspen Institute estimates that in the United States, half of the 21.5 million micro-enterprises (capitalized with US $35,000...
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Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o del Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mi
I am glad to announce the release of “Los Siguientes 4 Mil Millones: Tama?o de Mercado y Estrategia de Negocios en la Base de la Pir?mide", the Spanish language version of WRI and IFC’s milestone report “The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Busines Strategy at the Base of...
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