Timothy Prestero Better by Design How Empathy Can Lead to More Successful Technologies and Services for the Poor Discussion of Design Case Narratives: Rickshaw Bank Solar-Powered Tuki FGN Pump Professional training becomes a lens through…
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Julia Novy-Hildesley
Julia Novy-Hildesley By the Grace of Invention How Individuals Power Development We live only by the grace of invention: not merely by such invention as has already been made, but by our hope of new…
Anil Chitrakar and Babu Raj Shrestha
Anil Chitrakar and Babu Raj Shrestha The Tuki: Lighting Up Nepal Innovations Case Narrative: Solar-Powered Tuki The effort to provide the world’s poor with affordable, safe, and sustainable solu- tions to the problem of energy…
Gustavo Gennuso
Gustavo Gennuso Pumping Life into Marginalized Communities ETV’s Technology Model Innovations Case Discussion: Emprendimientos de Tecnologías para la Vida Emprendimientos de Tecnologías para la Vida (ETV) is a social enterprise whose development was based on…
Pradip Kumar Sarmah
Pradip Kumar Sarmah Rickshaw Bank: Empowering the Poor through Asset Ownership Innovations Case Narrative: Rickshaw Bank Seven years ago, a simple incident not only impacted me personally, but also led me to completely change my…
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green The Capital Curve for a Better World The world isn’t short of good ideas. The challenge that confronts every nation on earth is how to weed out the good from…
Robert D. Atkinson and David B. Audretsch
Robert D. Atkinson and David B. Audretsch Economic Doctrines and Innovation Policy Policymakers and economic scholars around the world agree that the primary source of economic growth, competitiveness, and increases in standards of living in…
Steve Beck, with Wouter Deelder and Robin Miller
Steve Beck, with Wouter Deelder and Robin Miller Franchising in Frontier Markets What’s Working, What’s Not, and Why If you happen to need a cab in Bangalore, call SPOT City Taxis. SPOT (Self- employment Program…
Paul Polak, Peggy Reid, and Amy Schefer
Paul Polak, Peggy Reid, and Amy Schefer 2.4 Billion Customers How Business Can Scale Solutions to Poverty Grameen Bank has loaned US$6.38 billion to 7.4 million very poor borrowers, and International Development Enterprises (IDE) a…
Brett R. Forgeron
Brett R. Smith The MicroConsignment Model Reconsidered Invention-Led Development by Shifting Risk, Transferring Knowledge, and Scaling Capabilities Innovations Case Discussion: The MicroConsignment Model There is a great deal of debate about the definition of social…