Articles by Scott Anderson
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Friday
December 6
2013From the BoP Summit: Next Steps In Finance
Graham Macmillan has been on both sides of the social enterprise funding question. Before joining the Citi Foundation as senior program officer - financial inclusion, he served as senior director of VisionSpring. Macmillan carries the perspective of both of the donor/investor evaluating partnerships and deals, as well as that of a social entrepreneur with practical concerns like trying reach that all-elusive scale, making sustainable profits and securing investors.
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Interviews
Thursday
November 28
2013(With Video) One Acre Fund’s Drive Toward Sustainable Farming and Sustainable Finance: An interview with Stephanie Hanson
Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States, so we’re taking time to think about the farmers that bring forth our bounty, not just in the U.S., but around the world. NextBillion managing editor Scott Anderson spoke with Stephanie Hanson, Director of Policy and Outreach at One Acre Fund, a nonprofit based in East Africa that provides loans, training and other agricultural services to farmers in four countries.
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Saturday
November 23
2013Weekly Roundup – 11/22/13: Nudging the middle men and women of social enterprise
A new working paper doesn’t simply look at what small and growing businesses (those categorized seeking growth capital of between $20,000-$2 million) need to be doing, but what the “intermediaries” need to be doing to lift budding businesses.
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Thursday
November 7
2013Framing the BoP : Dalberg’s Gupta on avoiding negative definitions for BoP business
Gaurav Gupta, Dalberg’s regional director for Asia, says the broader base of the pyramid business space should avoid defining itself from a negative perspective, i.e. failures. Instead we should emphasize strides in reducing the BoP sector as a whole.
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Interviews
Friday
November 1
2013Finding the Right Temperature for Public/Private Partnerships: An Interview With the Head of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, has about 100 million reasons for looking toward innovative ways to partner and collaborate with social enterprises, development agencies and NGOs. I caught up with her at the BoP Summit last month to talk about new modes of thinking around public-private partnerships.
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- Energy
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Wednesday
October 30
2013Watch the Replay of our Google Hangout with Paul Polak: Join us for a discussion of the new book “The Business Solution to Poverty”
Paul Polak will join NextBillion for our next Google Hangout at 2 p.m. Eastern, Wednesday, November 6. Polak and Mal Warwick, authored the new book: “The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers.” But we want/NEED your questions too. Find out how.
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Saturday
October 26
2013Weekly Roundup – 10/26/13: Guiding the “invisible hand” of the Base of the Pyramid market
Sometimes the invisible hand of the market needs, well, a helping hand. Consider the cases of Honey Care Africa, General Electric, and Coca Cola as they attempt establish new markets at the BoP. Each mini-case was reflected by company representatives during this week’s BoP Summit.
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Thursday
October 24
2013Day 3 at the BoP Summit: The investment community’s 2 cents, the roadmap work begins
Wednesday was the final day of WDI’s “BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade,” but it also was the first step towards advancing business models and funding mechanisms for the base of the pyramid.
These first steps came at the end of the three-day conference as nine working groups began piecing together a roadmap to chart the future course of the base of the pyramid (BoP) domain.- Categories
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