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 <title>Innovations Journal: Microfinance 2.0</title>
 <link>http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/07/10/innovations-journal-microfinance-2-0</link>
 <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitpressjournals.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mit/journals/covergifs/itgg/title.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;40&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;The fifth issue of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/itgg&quot;&gt;Innovations: Technology|Governance|Globalization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; arrived in my mailbox today.  Simply put, get a copy.  &lt;a href=&quot;/blogs/2006/03/28/innovations-from-base-to-top-a-must-read&quot;&gt;As usual&lt;/a&gt;, editors Phil Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir - along with publisher Nick Sullivan (of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youcanhearmenow.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;You Can Hear Me Now&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fame) and senior editor Winthrop Carty, have assembled a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/itgg/2/1-2&quot;&gt;set of articles&lt;/a&gt; by leading academics and practitioners of interest to those of us in the &amp;quot;base of the pyramid&amp;quot; community.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/itgg/2/1-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Microfinance 2.0: Technology and Services for Ascending Markets&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the thick journal (221 pages) covers everything from patient capital to regulatory innovation and doesn&amp;#39;t miss much in between.  (Disclaimer: I have an article, written with Al, Bill, Cory, and Julia, in this issue as well).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I&amp;#39;m just starting to read, so a review is forthcoming, but go ahead and start yourself.  Jaqueline Novogratz (Acumen Fund) has an article, as does Kiva&amp;#39;s Matt Flannery and famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.  Best part -- most of the articles are freely available.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Let me know what you think about specific articles in the comment section (below).&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br class=&quot;clear&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/07/10/innovations-journal-microfinance-2-0&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <category domain="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/topic/microfinance">Microfinance</category>
 <category domain="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/topic/strategy">Strategy</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:23:33 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Rob Katz</dc:creator>
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