Articles by Scott Anderson
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Wednesday
January 29
2014(With Video) Maximizing the Micro Approach to BoP: A new book explores bottom-up solutions
Madhu Viswanathan believes “bottom up” methods are too often neglected when thinking about BoP business development. Viswanathan, a business professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hopes to shift that imbalance in a new e-book, Subsistence Marketplaces.
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Monday
January 27
2014NexThought Monday: Coffee Talk (and Action): Sustainable Harvest’s Griswold on supply chain empathy and what’s brewing for smallholder farmers
The drive toward transparency and “empathy” has been David Griswold’s mission since creating Sustainable Harvest, a seller of fair trade coffee to the likes of Green Mountain and Whole Foods. This mission to inject more symmetry into the business has served Sustainable Harvest well. In 2013, the company closed $70 million in global sales. He spoke with NextBillion about what’s next.
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Saturday
January 25
2014Weekly Roundup 1/25/14: Oxfam’s 85 richest study, dissension in Davos and short ladders to income equality
Oxfam stole the show before the globalists at Davos could even step on the world stage this week at the World Economic Forum. Its new report says that the world’s 85 richest people control as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. But that’s not the whole story.
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Saturday
January 11
2014Weekly Roundup: Honoring Greg Dees
Real innovators disassemble, tinker, and then reassemble the known parts of a thing - any thing - to create something new and lasting. That’s what J. Gregory Dees did in defining social entrepreneurship 16 years ago in his paper “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.” Dees passed away last month, leaving a legacy for the academic study of social entrepreneurship.
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- Education
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Monday
January 6
2014NexThought Monday – Announcing the Most Influential Posts of 2013
We asked for your vote, and NextBillion readers cast more than 16,000 in our contest to pick the Most Influential Post of the year. Here are your winners for 2013.
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Saturday
December 21
2013Yearly Roundup: VOTE for the Most Influential Post of 2013
We thought that the most democratic way to run this contest for The Most-Influential NextBillion Post of 2013, was to simply pick the 12 posts (one per month) that attracted the most views in calendar year 2013. The rest is up to you. We hope you will vote early and often for your favorite(s) among the 12 contenders.
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Saturday
December 14
2013Weekly Roundup – 12/14/13: LeapFrog Investments’ sale of microinsurer to Prudential might one of biggest exits in impact investing
Impact investor LeapFrog Investments announced this week that it had sold its equity stake in Ghanaian insurer Express Life to Prudential PLC, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. Express Life sells micro-insurance and savings products to 730,000 mostly first-time buyers. For investors seeking a high-potential and highly scalable company that sells affordable goods and services to low-income people, this deal is one to bookmark.
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Saturday
December 7
2013Weekly Roundup (12/7/13) : Amazon can drone on about flying delivery, but the BoP will be the first beneficary
As intriguing as the Amazon drone, the Prime Air was in its reveal on 60 Minutes, count me among the skeptical. But while drones - also referred to as “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs) - are still a very dubious prospect for commerce in the United States, they could serve other purposes at the BoP.
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