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Open call for testimonials on African business climate
In response to the World Bank’s Doing Business Index of 2006, which ranks many African countries quite low (with a few exceptions among countries that are working on pro-business reforms), the BBC is requesting testimonials from people now doing or who have done business in an African...
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Will Open Source MFI Software Set the Industry Standard?
David at Microcapital reminds us of the Remote Transaction System, developed by Hewlett-Packard in conjunction with partner MFIs to widen the reach of financial services into rural areas. WRI was closely associated with the RTS project, at one time holding the intellectual capital in trust...
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Putting Paid to Poverty
"Putting Paid to Poverty” provides a hopeful scenario for the development of the ’base of the pyramid’ over the next ten years. It was written by Allen Hammond, VP for Innovation and Special Projects and William Kramer, Deputy Director of the Development Through Enterprise...
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Hospital Mafias and more! This year in global health corruption
The 2006 Transparency International report is out, and this year’s focus is on health services--apparently a sector particularly prone to corruption.? Why? The executive summary highlights three reasons: imbalance of information (health professionals know more than patients, and pharmaceutical...
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Water, water, every…where?
Thanks , Rob, for submitting a news story on water research that highlights what is (hopefully) a trend: the delivery of clean water to the BOP and the increased efficiency of water usage during production of other goods. For those of you who do not check the activity database faithfully,...
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Immune to Criticism? Hawken and Elkington on the BOP
John?s discovery of Value and subsequent post prompted me to probe a bit deeper into the site. First of all, it?s nice to see a business magazine that has the phrase ?Tomorrow?s Markets? in the sub-title. Nicer still is that Value provides content of...well, value. Take for...
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Value – New Magazine Explores Tomorrow’s Markets, Enterprises & Investments
?There will come a day when you will not be able to tell the difference between a for-profit and a nonprofit organization.? Those words, spoken by the late Peter Drucker to the Harvard Business Review in 1993, planted the seeds that have led to Value, the first new business magazine in a...
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BOP Job Announcements II ? Acumen Fund and GFUSA
Following up on my job announcements post the other day, I hear through Zoo Station and New Ventures that there are some other promising opportunities opening up in the BOP realm. Acumen Fund is looking for 10 post-graduate fellows to learn about and help manage their portfolio?s wide range...
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