Articles by Julia Tran
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Friday
October 20
2006Jobs in BOP-related Organizations
Every once in a while, we receive queries about job opportunities with us or organizations with a similar focus on market-based development strategies. Here’s a roundup of openings that might catch your eye. If you have an opening you would like to advertise on NextBillion, please contact...
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Monday
September 18
2006Rating Ease of Business and Economic Freedom in 2006
September is an exciting month for country ranking enthusiasts. World Bank?s 2007 Doing Business Report, and Cato/Fraser Institute?s 2006 Economic Freedom Report were released back-to-back, Sep 6 and Sep 7, respectively, begging for some compare-and-contract action. First, what are the...
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Thursday
June 8
2006Last call: Oxford MBA for social entrepreneurs
If you?re a social entrepreneur interested in an MBA education at Oxford, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship has issued a last call for applications for a full scholarship to attend Oxford University?s full-time, one-year MBA program. The Scholarship covers fees and offers a...
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Wednesday
April 12
2006Reporting back from the Kenyan Development Network Consortium
The Kenyan Development Network Consortium held a ?co-creation? workshop on Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, in Washington DC. (KDNC was founded by Macharia Waruingi, a long-time member of NextBillion.) Participants were mostly members of the Kenyan diaspora, working professionals with a...
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Wednesday
March 22
2006Bretton Woods Symposium with C.K. Prahalad and BOP practitioners
Last week, John, Cory, and I went to a symposium on the BOP hosted by the Bretton Woods Committee. The symposium was paneled by four individuals from academia, an MNC, a technical assistance non-profit, and a small social for-profit corporation. Kai Schmidtz, EVP and COO of MicroFinance...
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Thursday
March 2
2006Insights from the field: Interviews with social entrepreneurs
Rob Katz, a NextBillion staff writer, recently interviewed Martin Fisher, co-founder of KickStart, and Upendra Bhatt, co-founder of Aavishkaar, in writing an article for GreenBiz.com. KickStart and Aavishkaar are, dare I say, two of the most innovative and robust businesses operating at the...
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Tuesday
February 14
2006Redoubling billions, yet why can’t the West save Africa?
William Easterly’s Monday column in the Washington Post, “The West Can’t Save Africa,” was unreservedly caustic toward all the big talk and promises in 2005 about ending poverty. Easterly pinpoints a most fundamental error in Western aid’s orientation toward poverty alleviation--its...
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Thursday
January 12
2006Microfranchise modes of healthcare delivery
Along with John and Cory, I had attended BYU?s Microfranchise Learning Lab in Washington DC this past Friday. Two of the four microfranchises featured, HealthStore Kenya and Scojo, operate in the health industry. Granted, microfranchises are flourishing in many industries (see Kirk...
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