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Making Low Cost PCs Work for SMEs
Mobile phone companies have found innovative ways to give consumers at the bottom of the pyramid the services they need in a cheap, barebones way that takes few resources or knowledge to use. Despite efforts to tailor designs to the BOP in a similar way, the makers of cheap PCs are far from...
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Rwanda Journal: Funds for East Africa’s SMEs
Editor’s note: NextBillion staff writer Courtland Walker recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda. Over the next week, he will post reflections on his trip as part of the Rwanda Journal series. This is the third post in the series; read the first two here and here.In high-income...
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India’s Dabbawalas Reinvent Themselves
It’s heartening to come across real stories of people, who are by no means rich or well educated, entering and supporting the market economy. In India’s financial capital of Mumbai, Dabbawalas, whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office...
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