whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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...farmers to technology, but given them the financial where-withal to maintain their technical advantage. CK Prahalad talks over the video, "The poor are prepared to pay for services and products....

2. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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...r cell phones?  Who would have thought that this would stimulate a multi-billion Dollar industry? C K Prahalad, speaking in Johannesburg at a conference organised by Global Leaders, declares tha...

3. Making money, doing good
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C K Prahalad will be in South Africa at the end of March.  He is one of the most popular development economists around at the moment having coined the phrase, “the fortune at the bottom of

4. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
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...in capital markets depends on independent and impartial trend analysis and institutional ratings. Until CK Prahalad came along, the only information on the world’s poorest was that they lived o...