Julia Tran
April 26, 2007 — 12:01 pm
Cheikh Mbengue, an expert from Abt Associates on community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in Africa, said something that perked my ears last Wednesday at a USAID After Hours Seminar on microinsurance. He said that he thinks CBHIs can't function effectively without subsidies. No one has really talked about subsidies in the BOP space. The message is always, "get prices down low enough, quality up high enough, distribution wide enough, and you've got a market at the BOP."
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Rob Katz
April 20, 2007 — 03:35 pm
I really like Tom Friedman - I have since high school, when a summer program I attended assigned his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. I've also seen him sitting in DC cafes, running to catch cabs, and even met him in person at WRI's 25th Anniversary Dinner. Nice guy. Smart, too.
Despite all this goodwill, I usually find at least one thing in his columns or his books that irks me. Maybe he's exaggerating, or hasn't gotten it quite right, or his sources are a little off. The point is, I usually take issue with him, just a little bit.
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