Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor - NYTimes.com

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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Sunday, October 3, 2010

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...







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