Articles by Derek Newberry
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Guest Articles
Thursday
September 28
2006Rising Ventures: Oxil Turns Waste Into Opportunity
Waste is an issue that tends to fly under the radar these days, but should receive more attention- in Sao Paulo alone, 10 tons of garbage is dumped in surrounding landfills every day. In 1999 two entrepreneurs saw a new challenge amidst the piles of used materials in their hometown, and founded...
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Wednesday
September 27
2006Record VC Investment In India Good for BOP/Clean Tech Sectors
Just as a report comes out confirming the obvious- that SMEs in India have a hard time performing because they don?t have the funding they need- Business Today declares (subscription required) that the private sector is picking up the slack, with record venture capital flooding the country....
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Tuesday
September 26
2006Diverse Voices On the Internet
The thing to do in development right now (the right thing in my opinion) is to have as much initiative and control as possible given to the beneficiary. That is one of the main tenets behind the BOP market theory, grassroots development and other approaches. Poverty alleviation and...
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Monday
September 25
2006The Benefits of Trade Should Not Be Oversold
The Financial Times exposes the hype over trade and poverty in the context of all the rhetoric we?ve heard regarding the failure of the Doha round.? The last series of WTO meetings ground to a halt, largely over the ?developed? world?s refusal to significantly cut agricultural tariffs...
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Monday
September 25
2006BizWeek Takes a Shot at Explaining Microfinance
It was bound to happen- BusinessWeek caught the microfinance bug today, publishing an extended overview of this booming industry in India.? Rather than simply explaining the microfinance movement and describing how it works, the author gets into some of the structural imbalances spurring market...
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Friday
September 22
2006Filling the Finance Gap With Angels
The equity gap is growing- small businesses worldwide are finding it harder to obtain needed financing, as has been well documented. For some companies, especially those in emerging economies with few resources, the only alternative is to seek funding from wealthy individual ?angel...
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Thursday
September 21
2006Microfinance Regulation: Two Countries Show What Works and What Doesn’t
Uganda and India have further institutionalized the growing political popularity of microfinance by attempting to regulate it.? A closer look shows how government intervention can facilitate or hinder the growth of these programs. ? Uganda?s government has chosen to simply limit the...
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Wednesday
September 20
2006Trends in the “South” Will Have Serious Affects on the BOP
As heads of the World Bank battle it out over how to curtail corruption in beneficiary countries, a curious trend is forming that could be a far greater threat to the open, global economic system they favor than any graft or bribery scheme. Over the weekend 116 countries were represented at the...
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