Articles by Rob Katz
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Friday
June 22
2007Article Slams $3000 “People’s Car”
Ironically, as Nitin posted his piece on the $3000 1-lakh car, I came across this article, Just What Overcrowded, Polluted India Didn’t Need - The $3000 Car, in The Independent. Well, we never said it wasn’t controversial. In fact, the whole thing gives me pause. On the one hand,...
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Wednesday
June 20
2007Introducing Ella Delio
The NextBillion.net team and the World Resources Institute are pleased to introduce Ella Delio as a Senior Associate working with the Markets and Enterprise program (which includes NextBillion.net). Ella has 8 years of relevant experience in enterprise and private sector development....
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Monday
June 18
2007TED Global — Cheetahs or Hippos?
That TED Global came and went without so much as a whisper here on NextBillion.net is a shame.? The curator, Emeka Okafor, is a friend and also the mind behind Timbuktu Chronicles, a must-read for those of us in the BOP set.? How could I miss reporting on his major conference? Thankfully,...
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Wednesday
June 13
2007TONIGHT: Microfinance Club of NY Event
Via Pablo Halkyard, who many will recognize as a co-founder of PSD Blog. He’s now up at NYU doing a master’s degree. In any case, Pablo sent me an e-mail regarding the following event...if you’re in NYC, check it out:The Microfinance Club of New York in cooperation with The...
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Tuesday
June 12
2007Base of the Pyramid — Cartoon Edition
This came across my desk via Virginia Barreiro, director of New Ventures.? For your Tuesday afternoon (EDT) pleasure....
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Wednesday
June 6
2007Karnani: Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Aneel Karnani, the Michigan strategy professor and controversial author of “Mirage at the Bottom of the Pyramid", has a new article in the Summer edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.? “Microfinance Misses Its Mark” examines some of the failures of microfinance,...
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Monday
June 4
2007BOP in Bogota – Conference This Week
I realize I’ve been pretty quiet on NextBillion lately.? Thankfully Derek, Tayo, Nitin, Al, Bill, and Julia have picked up a ton of slack and are writing fantastic pieces. One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet lately is simply that I haven’t been around much.? Between work...
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Tuesday
May 29
2007Report from Tokyo: The Next 4 Billion now in Japanese
The World Bank has translated The Next 4 Billion into Japanese, and the Bank held a launch event in Tokyo, May 23. “The World Bank Tokyo Office is pleased to make this important research available to a broad audience in Japan,” said Lester Dally, World Bank Acting Special...
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