The results are out for first annual BoP e-Journal competition organised by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University’s Johnson School. We have recently blogged about how Cornell's BoP Learning Labs are moving the discussion to developing markets, and gaining live insights from BoP experiences gleaned from around the world.

The competition was developed to highlight the challenges of doing business in underserved markets and identify innovative business experiments or solutions to those challenges.

The winning submissions were able to clearly articulate a business challenge that an organization, either a non-profit or for-profit enterprise, working in low-income communities is striving to overcome. These are prominently included in the BoP e-Journal here.

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Position: Junior Equity Analyst

Location: New York, NY -- USA

Organization: Grassroots Capital Management/Gray Ghost Fund manages microfinance investments that seek to achieve medium and long-term capital appreciation together with a positive social impact through private equity investments in microfinance investment vehicles and microfinance institutions located around the world.

Job Description: There is an opening for a Junior Equity Analyst who can be based in New York. The successful candidate will form part of a small and growing team based in New York and London and should relish the challenge of helping to create a new standard of excellence in equity investment in microfinance.

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