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Rising Ventures: Berni Labs offers alternatives for Mexico’s low-income farmers
The crop duster crashing and dumping pesticides into the Los Mochis water supply was bad enough. But when a warehouse blaze released toxic agrochemicals into the air, causing respiratory illnesses among farmers and their families in the area, Jorge Berni knew there had to be a better way. ...
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The Role of IT in International Development – Upcoming E-Conference
What role do information technologies play in economic development? We?ve been trying to answer that question ever since the Digital Dividends conference way back in 2002, first as an IT-focused research team and now as Development through Enterprise and NextBillion.net. There are no simple...
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New Blogger Joins NextBillion.net Team: Seema Patel
We?re happy to introduce Seema Patel, who has joined the NextBillion.net team as a part-time intern.? When she?s not working with us here at WRI, Seema is a senior project manager at ITF consulting.? She received her master?s degree in International Relations and Environmental Policy...
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Wharton’s Africa Business Forum
The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania will convene a 1-day conference on November 11 in Philadelphia. Africa: Building New Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy features panel sessions on a slew of NextBillion-related topics: consumer goods, private equity,...
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