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Tag Archives: India
BRICS: Can South Africa represent the entire continent?
by Daniel Kaplan and Devang Vussonji In the kingdom of developing countries, there used to be the big four: China, the assembly line of the world; India, the world’s back-office; Russia, the energy behemoth; and Brazil, the biofuel and large-scale … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy and Performance
Tagged Africa, Brazil, BRICS, BRICS summit, China, development, India, Russia, South Africa, trade
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Mapping the Landscape of Emerging Aid Donors
By Paul Callan, Jasmin Blak, and Andria Thomas The first blog in this series addressed the attention given to Chinese foreign assistance. Yet China is only one of several emerging donor countries that are providing an increasingly significant contribution to … Continue reading
An Unlikely Development Ally: Sizing the Market for Low-Power Television
By Shanti Mahajan “In rural areas, after dark, it gets really boring.” –Abhijit Banerjee, speaking at the 2012 Bandra Literature Festival Ask a development professional about the needs of people at the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP), and you’ll probably hear the usual suspects: … Continue reading
Posted in Energy and Environment
Tagged BOP, Brazil, CLASP, development, electricity, energy, Ethiopia, gender, Global LEAP, India
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Assessing inclusive business needs in India and Sri Lanka
by Priya Pingali As successful market-based solutions to development challenges become more prolific, the separation between private sector methods and public objectives is growing obsolete. Inclusive businesses in particular are playing an increasingly important role in improving the quality of … Continue reading
Creating sustainable livelihood opportunities in the Himalayas
In the foothills of the Himalayas, nearly seven hours from the nearest train station, sits Avani, an NGO focused on creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for local communities. Founded in 1997 by a couple from Delhi named Rashmi Bharti and Rajnish … Continue reading
Giving entrepreneurship wings
by Pallavi Jayannavar It’s 8 PM and in a small village in Ananthapur, India, Dastagiri has a new customer in his shop. The customer is not there for groceries or shampoo sachets though; he’s there to make a withdrawal from … Continue reading
Posted in Social Enterprise
Tagged entrepreneurship, India, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social incubators, Villgro
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Using renewable energy to power mobile towers
As the mobile subscriber base in India rapidly grows, so does the need for expanded service. Already home to 400,000 mobile towers, the country expects to build 200,000 more over the next two to four years in order to meet … Continue reading
Posted in Energy and Environment
Tagged DFID, electricity, energy, environment, green towers, India, mobile, mobile towers, Mumbai, rural electricity
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Supporting investment in climate change technologies
Large, increasing populations combined with rapid economic growth have positioned the Asia Pacific region as a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change: there are more people at … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Finance, Energy and Environment
Tagged ADB, Asia, Asian Development Bank, China, clean technology, climate change, climatech, energy, environment, India
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Expanding biomass energy production in India
Approximately 45% of households in rural India lack electricity, a statistic that reaches as high as 90% among the country’s poorest states. In response to this gap, a leading mini-grid social enterprise in India has begun producing electricity from a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy and Environment
Tagged Asia, biomass, electricity, energy, environment, India, Mumbai
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Making public transportation female-friendly in Mumbai
If you could change anything about your daily commute, what would it be? Dalberg teamed up with the World Bank this spring to ask more than 200 women living in slums in Mumbai, India about the barriers preventing them from … Continue reading
