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Chasing Gazelles to Achieve Poverty Reduction, Development Goals
Economist David Birch coined the term "gazelle" as private businesses with annual revenue growth of 20% over four years. Such SMEs create the vast majority of new jobs and GDP growth in the U.S. and Europe, but how does this translate into opportunities in emerging markets? A recent IFC memo and forum on harnessing gazelles offers answers.
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NextBillion is Now Available on Google Currents
Some of you, in fact nearly 2,000 of you as of this writing, have discovered that NextBillion was recently included among the first 180 content providers in the new Google Currents application. For everyone else with an Android phone or tablet, or an iPhone or iPad, we hope you join us by downloading the free Google Currents and subscribing to NB.
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