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November 10, 2006 — 11:30 am
In Indonesia, less than half of small businesses have access to formal financing. This fact is staggering given the importance of entrepreneurship in the thriving South Asian economies and it is one of the main reasons why New Ventures hosted its First Annual Investor Forums in India and...
November 3, 2006 — 01:05 pm
New Ventures India is wrapping up its annual Investor Forum, linking some of the country's most outstanding small, sustainable enterprises with the capital and managerial training they need to grow and expand. Some initial highlights from the event include rousing discussions from Michael...
October 23, 2006 — 02:46 pm
It is tragic that in a country where 17,000 tons of food are thrown away every day, 10% of the population is malnourished. That is what struck Hector Gonzales, anyway, when he decided this issue was far too important for a business such as his to ignore. It is upon this foundation of...
October 12, 2006 — 05:06 pm
The crop duster crashing and dumping pesticides into the Los Mochis water supply was bad enough. But when a warehouse blaze released toxic agrochemicals into the air, causing respiratory illnesses among farmers and their families in the area, Jorge Berni knew there had to be a better way. ...
October 6, 2006 — 12:01 pm
Hard to believe that someone in the concrete industry of all places would have a social conscience in addition to well-honed business acumen, but that is indeed the spirit in which the EcoCreto company’s founders operate. New Ventures’ Sara Standish interviewed Nestor de Buen about his...
September 29, 2006 — 11:38 am
Most people steeped in the development field see the term developing countries as negative and passé; we call the up and coming global presence of countries like China, Brazil and Indonesia “emerging economies.” This term is not about being PC, it’s about accuracy and according to the...
September 28, 2006 — 11:55 am
Waste is an issue that tends to fly under the radar these days, but should receive more attention- in Sao Paulo alone, 10 tons of garbage is dumped in surrounding landfills every day. In 1999 two entrepreneurs saw a new challenge amidst the piles of used materials in their hometown, and founded...
September 27, 2006 — 11:52 am
Just as a report comes out confirming the obvious- that SMEs in India have a hard time performing because they don’t have the funding they need- Business Today declares (subscription required) that the private sector is picking up the slack, with record venture capital flooding the country. ...
September 26, 2006 — 11:25 am
The thing to do in development right now (the right thing in my opinion) is to have as much initiative and control as possible given to the beneficiary. That is one of the main tenets behind the BOP market theory, grassroots development and other approaches. Poverty alleviation and...
September 25, 2006 — 03:24 pm
The Financial Times exposes the hype over trade and poverty in the context of all the rhetoric we’ve heard regarding the failure of the Doha round. The last series of WTO meetings ground to a halt, largely over the ‘developed’ world’s refusal to significantly cut agricultural tariffs...
