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Could reforms unlock Mexico’s “huge” microfinance potential?
Mexico's financial reforms could help the country's microfinance industry fulfill its "huge potential" for growth, rating agency S&P said in a report.
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Twitter Top Ten – 10-26-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
We’re continuing what we’re calling a "pilot feature" here at NextBillion. Each Sunday for the next three weeks, we’re running a post highlighting the top tweets that crossed our editors’ computer screens during the preceding week. Our goal is to highlight emerging developments in our coverage areas, while also drawing attention to some compelling voices online.
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Building Inclusion Into the Pyramid: Introspection, evalution in revealing the ‘BoP Roadmap’
Is the Base of the Pyramid concept in need of a recharge? That’s what two of its founding fathers think. Along with some re-energizing, it’s a concept that could use some humility as well. This introspection and evaluation comes at a time when many others at the intersection of commerce and development are doing the same thing.
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eRezeki project to connect Malaysians at bottom 40% of income pyramid with digital income
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today announced the eRezeki project to connect Malaysians at the bottom 40% of the income pyramid (B40) with domestic and global digital income.
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Why American Small Businesses Are Singing Microcredit’s Praises
Grameen America has helped multiple neighborhoods in the U.S. thrive. Here's the story of one business owner in Queens, New York.
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OPINION: Twenty years of making microfinance, or whatever you want to call it, work
Today in Seattle, an organization called Global Partnerships celebrates two decades of helping people rise up out of poverty through a variety of initiatives all aimed at empowering the poor – by helping smallholder farmers, improving health, encouraging the use of “green” technologies and through microfinance.
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Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman on Dangote and investing in Africa
“He is a smart guy, and he always has something informative to say.”
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The Business Case for BoP Strategies: In part two of this series, how Brazil’s Tenda Atacado bagged scale
Tenda Atacado, a supermarket chain and wholesale distributor, noted a demand within the local BoP community and it’s growth has surged ever since. Part two of a series exploring the base of the pyramid practices, from the Erb Institute and Manaus Consulting, looks at Tenda’s strategy.
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