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The Best Foot Forward
Feet are important to discussions of the BOP hypothesis. I?m not talking about feet as in the unit of length, but rather as those awkward appendages connected to your legs. From a base of the pyramid vantage point, which is the best foot forward?I did some thinking about this, and decided...
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In India, Weathermen Are the New Priests
In the United States, faith, along with the rest of American culture, has been industrialized, and is now manufactured and sold in the mega-church, an odd cross between a sports stadium and a big box store. But thankfully, for those of us who can?t find salvation beneath blaring florescent...
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Craig’s List for Emerging Economies
Emeka Okafor from the blog, Timbuktu Chronicles, recently wrote about an extraordinary service in Bangladesh, which promises to provide significant benefits to the BOP.? GrameenPhone Ltd., Bangledesh?s largest cellular provider, has announced a partnership with MIT-based CellBazaar to...
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New Meso-Finance Mechanisms in South Africa
In my relentless search to find reasons to move to the fair city of Cape Town (as if biodiversity-friendly winelands, Lion’s Head & the 12 Apostles, and?the World Cup semi-finals in 2010?weren’t enough), I regularly read?South Africa’s Mail & Guardian.? ?I am rarely...
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It’s Hard Out Here for a Shrimp Boat Captain
What do shrimp fishermen in Louisiana have in common with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso? Both have suffered serious financial setbacks because of American farm subsidies. And with the breakdown of the Doha Round earlier this week, both will continue to suffer well into the foreseeable...
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That Catfish Sure Tastes Good
This Saturday the New York Times jumped on the biodiesel bandwagon, publishing this article on Jim Nornman and his experience driving a car powered by vegetable oil.? Here at Nextbillion, we have covered biodiesel and its use in the developing world on two separate occasions?in Rwanda?s...
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One ICT in the Philippines Shows Why a BOP Model is Just SMART Business
As I’ve noted before, what is often most fascinating about the work we do is realizing how adaptive the entrepreneurial spirit can be and how given a market with considerably less resources, entrepreneurs in emerging economies are finding creative ways to provide what were previously...
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The Long Tail and the BOP
A lot of people are talking lately about ?The Long Tail,? a concept first put forward by Wired editor Chris Anderson.? (A lot of buzz was generated when his book of the same name was published earlier this month).? The basic idea, as described by Anderson, is that business is...
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