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May 20, 2008 — 11:48 am
Stephen J. Gould once called humans "the primates who tell stories." Stories are part of how we transfer culture, they are a device through which we shape our identity and relationship to the world - in the development community, they are a way to get people to act. Stories help...
May 15, 2008 — 04:23 pm
Guest blogger John Paul is a Co-Founder and former Managing Editor of Nextbillion.net. He is currently finishing up his MBA at Cornell University, where he has focused on private-sector solutions to global poverty with the school's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise In this post,...
May 15, 2008 — 12:13 pm
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundación AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
May 14, 2008 — 09:34 am
Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of 'EcoForge', an investment advisory and consulting firm...
May 13, 2008 — 09:29 am
Guest blogger Ryan Gunderson writes about sustainable, scalable solutions to end global poverty on his Riches For Good blog. A finance professional with an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and seven years of Fortune 500 experience, Ryan is transitioning to...
May 12, 2008 — 09:50 am
Guest blogger Brian Trelstad is the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen Fund, Brian spent four years at McKinsey as a consultant in the healthcare and non-profit practices and as an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as a case writer at...
May 6, 2008 — 05:03 pm
Position: Senior Researcher, BoP Energy Sector Analysis, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Location: Chennai, India Organization: The Centre for Development Finance of the IFMR is a development economics research and action centre. It was formally established in...
May 1, 2008 — 10:44 am
The debate around SME finance is rapidly maturing. Development professionals and socially-minded investors are well aware of the difficulty entrepreneurs in emerging economies have in securing capital larger than microloans. A World Bank conference to be held next Monday and Tuesday in...
April 30, 2008 — 12:24 pm
We blog frequently on this site about the importance of large multi-nationals finding ways to tap into BoP markets. This often comes in the form of discussions on reaching the BoP directly as consumers (ie projects like the OLPC or microcredit initiatives). But what about small and medium...
April 24, 2008 — 05:17 pm
So it seems KickStart has something else going for it, as if a viral video featuring Maasai rapper Mr. Ebbo weren't enough... The CEO of the San Francisco-based social enterprise, Martin Fisher, won the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability this week for his innovative and affordable...
