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BCG publication: Top Companies from Emerging Markets
Julia Tran mentioned in a previous post some Boston Consulting Group (BCG) publications related with the ?Next Billion?. Two more studies were published in November ??Decoding Next Billion Consumers? and ?A Road Map to expanding Financial Inclusion in India? (this second one looks...
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Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees – On Mobile Banking
I found Peter van Dijk’s comments on Ana’s report from the Mobile Banking Conference interesting but not convincing. Not surprisingly, the evolution of mobile phone banking has not been without false steps, fraudulent operators, and systems that have flaws. But evolution also tends to...
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Does BoP Success Require the Moral Imperative?
When I first read the seminal article “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably” in HBR, I found the direction it pointed to elusive. Instead of tugging at sympathy, the paper pointed to an exciting and fast growing market - the immense collective entrepreneurial capabilities and...
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