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2010: The Year of Lessons in Corporate Governance
Sometimes corporate governance is taken for granted; other times it’s totally ignored. Either way, the year 2010 has illustrated the need to ramp up corporate governance on the development through enterprise agenda.
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Rural Marketing Congress India 2010: Reaching the 700 Million
Rural Marketing Congress India 2010 organized by Ideas-Exchange earlier this month. The event brought together panelists and delegates from companies of varied sectors and sizes - all focused on marketing to the 700 million strong and largely under-served Indian rural market.
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How to Save Microfinance from the Indian Government
Microfinance is on the brink of collapse in Andhra Pradesh and across India, but the market for banking to the ultra poor will not disappear. Therefore, the time is ripe for a discussion about the core competency of microfinance and what institutions will fill this void in the coming years, be they for profit or not.
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Re-thinking Accessibility: Designing a Car for Africa
Mobius Motors, an African car company in its infancy, is developing the first car targeting African buyers. But how exactly does one build a car company from scratch in one of the most notoriously difficult markets? For Mobius Founder Joel Jackson, it starts by re-imagining the car as a more "relevant," device - built around the needs of its users.
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How are Hybrid Value Chains different from CSR, BoP, Inclusive Business?
You may wonder about the actual differences between a Hybrid Value Chain, Corporate Social Responsibility, Base of the Pyramid and Inclusive Business. The field of market-based approaches addressing social and environmental issues is still too nascent to start arguing over terms, but it may be worth clarifying some fundamental differences.
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Introducing The (BoP) Project: Photojournalism at the Base of the Economic Pyramid
Today I’m thrilled to introduce Jonathan Kalan, whose work in photojournalism is making a genuine, important contribution to the field of reporting and journalism at the base of the economic pyramid.
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Forum Looks at BoP in Brazil
Tomorrow in S?o Paulo, Brazil, NextBillion along with several other stakeholders, will participate an event on "Modelos De Negocios Que Reduzem a Pobreza" or for the non-Portuguese speaker, Business Models that Reduce Poverty. I briefly spoke with Rob Parkison, Coordinator for ANDE’s Brazil Regional Hub and organizer of the event.
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Local Capacity Building and Business Development at the Base of the Pyramid
This is the third post in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview focuses on Mr. Winter and Technoserve’s views of local capacity building.
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