http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/07/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print Comments for ""All The News That's Fit To Print"" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/07/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print <p><p style="padding: 5px; float: right;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/News.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="117" height="175" /></p>Here’s the skinny on BOP news in the Blogosphere:<br /><br />•<a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/yellowsheepriver-municator-takes-aim-at-developing-nations-laptop-market-184378.php" target="_blank">Nicholas Deleon of Gizmodo.com writes about a $150 laptop</a> that will soon be sold in rural China and South East Asia. Unlike Negroponte’s version, the personal computer discussed here will not have a hand crank but will be powered by a wire plugged into the wall.<br /><br />•Pablo Halkyard of The World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog seems to have been snooping around Columbia University’s Economics Department lately. In two posts this week, <a href="http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/2006/07/stiglitz_defend.html" target="_blank">he mentions Joseph Stiglitz</a>, who argues that natural gas nationalization in Bolivia may benefit the BOP, <a href="http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/2006/07/sachs_calls_for.html" target="_blank">and Jefferey Sachs</a>, who argues that the private sector—both business and NGOs—can help enfranchise the dispossessed.<br /></p><p><br />More...</p><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/07/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/07/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print#comment Miscellaneous Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:04:31 -0400 Ethan Arpi 2977 at http://www.nextbillion.net