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Interview with Thamel.com
WRI’s latest What Works case study, Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development, is now available through the NextBillion.net Case Studies page. The report documents a Nepal-based marketing and development company that has tapped the resources of the diaspora to create new opportunities for...
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RSS Upgrade: Helping you stay plugged into NextBillion.net
Over the past few weeks, we have been working with the NextBillion.net team to upgrade some of this website?s features to make it easier for you to access the content you need. The most recent addition, and probably the most obvious, is the improved RSS integration with NextBillion.net.RSS...
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Global Social Benefit Incubator
I was reminded again this morning by PSD Blog of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, “an intensive two-week residential program that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.” The two-week in-residence program (July 29 - August...
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Cashless Transactions at the BOP: Peppercoin
What do your local Chinese restaurant?s delivery service and MIT?s advanced cryptography department have in common? The answer: Peppercoin, an innovative payment platform allowing consumers to use credit or debit cards for small transactions -- thus eliminating merchants? need for those...
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Following Remittances Around the World
With international remittance flows to the developing world set to top $167bn this year, a newly released report by the United Nations shows that remittanceflows to the African continent, averaging US$17bn per annumbetween 2000 and 2003, havesurpassed Foreign Direct Investment during...
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Case Study Released – Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development
WRI’s latest What Works case study, Thamel.com: Diaspora-enabled Development, is now available through the NextBillion.net Case Studies page. The report documents a Nepal-based marketing and development company that has tapped the resources of the diaspora to create new opportunities for...
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Islamic Banking, tools of the trade
This is my second posting about Islamic banking. I hope to share some information about practices that few people hear about, but are pertinent to doing business in the Muslim world--especially regarding microcredit. For a loan to conform to Islamic law, it must be riba-free;...
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Harvard’s Global Poverty Conference – Abstracts Posted
Last week, Harvard Business School brought together committed scholars and corporate, non-profit and government leaders to discuss the role of business in poverty alleviation. The 3-day conference, Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches, featured case studies on and empirical...
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