Here’s your Daily Brief for December 9th: Women at the BoP: what does it mean when your money belongs to you? (via Perspective 2.0) – Ownership is a critical step toward empowerment at the bottom of the pyramid. Advances in technologies, in this case biometric ID cards, will be the future of solving this problem. [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for December 8th through December 9th: Conspicuous Correlation: Coltan and Crisis Reports (via Appfrica) – One of the major factors feeding genocide and violent crimes against humanity is that ruling regimes have established business relations with foreign companies, earning them an political ally and a source of revenue to fuel local [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for December 7th: The Next Generation of Microfinance: Microfranchising (via Allyu and BeyondProfit) – One of the challenges for microfinance institutions is covering their overhead expenses. I’ve written about my friend Ben Lyon’s approach to integrating mobile platforms that deliver microfinance services at much lower cost (See FrontlineSMS: Credit). Melissa Richer, [...]

I fell behind on posting Daily Briefs this last week – I was focusing most all of my attention on great Thanksgiving food and company, as well as working hard on completing my Echoing Green Fellowship Application! Here’s a compilation of some of the coolest articles and blog posts that have come across my desk [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 20th: AGOA Nations Frustrated By Administration’s Adherence To Status Quo (via The Whitaker Group) – I wrote a post a few weeks ago about the African Growth and Opportunity Act that was being promoted at the AGOA Forum by several high ranking US officials including Secretary Clinton. This excellent [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 7th: An article in todays Business Daily newspaper caught my eye and has inspired me to begin my discussion on the role of China in Africa. This is a wildly important discussion and I promise there is more to come on this topic. Anyways, this article suggests that the [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 6th: There has been a lot of buzz surrounding AGOA for the last week or so, and I’ve included a few articles in my daily briefs the last couple of days. I figured today I would dedicate the entire DB to AGOA and flush out some of the concerns [...]

Here’s your Daily Brief for August 5th: Paul Farmer out for USAID? (via Foreign Policy) – It appears as if Paul Farmer, the man recently rumored to be appointed head of USAID, is no longer in the running. The culprit seems to be the daunting vetting process itself, including a form requiring the candidate to [...]