Articles by Scott Anderson
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Thursday
April 17
2014March’s Most-Popular Posts on NextBillion
Three posts, each advocating constructive and concrete steps for expanding the umbrella of financial inclusion to even more people, were the most-read articles on NextBillion in March.
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Thursday
April 10
2014Check Out a Replay of Our Latest Google Hangout : A Q&A with the winners of the 2014 Case Writing Competition
As you may have heard, earlier this week we announced the top five winners in the fourth NextBillion Case Writing Competition, sponsored by the Citi Foundation. Now it’s time to hear from the scholars and contributors behind the winning cases.
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Tuesday
April 1
2014Congratulations to the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition Winners
Expanding solar products in Africa, reducing infant blindness for premature babies in India, branding an organic biodegradable chewing gum from farmers in Mexico - these were among the winning business cases in our annual competition.
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Saturday
March 22
2014Weekly Roundup – 3/22/14: Why it’s time to start feeling good about Africa
If the facts don’t fit the frame, all too often, those facts are disregarded. The facts about Africa’s economic and entrepreneurial growth continue to defy the frame of the “impoverished third world and therefore to be pitied” continent that, even now, remains fixed in the minds of many.
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
March 18
2014(With Video) Beyond the Prototype: Wello’s CEO on product design, understanding customers and advice for social entrepreneurs
Cynthia Koenig, CEO of Wello, whose flagship product is a rolling water tank, advises against getting too reliant on a series of check boxes when it comes to measuring impact. In a video interview with NB, she talks about prototyping the next generation of the device, designed for BoP customers.
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Saturday
March 8
2014Weekly Roundup – 3/8/14: Why ‘women’s empowerment’ impacts much more than 51% of the population
This week we didn’t need a bloodhound to pick up on the trail of enterprises and nonprofits that advance the cause of women and girls, advancing the world economy in the process.
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Saturday
February 22
2014Weekly Roundup – 2/22/14: At FLII building a collaborative flock to complex solve problems
Ramon Marmolejos ended an uplifting presentation on Day One of the Latin American Impact Investment Conference (which goes by the Spanish acronym FLII) with a big picture of what looked like a million starlings.
“There is not one bird leading the flock,” said Marmolejos, executive director of Emzingo Group, which provides a leadership training program combined with social impact consultancy projects in emerging markets. “How do we create those (economic) systems to have these sorts of flocks?”- Categories
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Friday
February 21
2014The Eyes Have It: January’s Most Viewed Posts on NB
We’re happy to renew our NextBillion awards for the most popular and most shared posts of the month - and January’s top three brought a heady brew of sharp criticism, deep analysis on design and health care models worth a second look.
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