Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor - NYTimes.com
A good article by ex-DMNer Vikas Bajaj. To put CK Prahlad's principle of "bottom of the pyramid" into action, as well as using principles from organizations like the Grameen Foundation - and make money at that!
An analogy could be what the French company Dannon is doing - targeting developed markets with a new spin on probiotics, and developing markets with specialized, cheap, but healthy products like Misti Dhoi in Bangladesh...
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India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People - WSJ.com
India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People - WSJ.com
A dream team to setup an ID system for more than a billion people - great concept! How would a real ID system effect the common man? Some good ideas in the article, including hope that the subsidized rations get to the right people instead of the middlemen...
A dream team to setup an ID system for more than a billion people - great concept! How would a real ID system effect the common man? Some good ideas in the article, including hope that the subsidized rations get to the right people instead of the middlemen...
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