Stories: Markets & Enterprise

Two firms in India and Brazil are positioning themselves for growth in a future where sustainable managment will be a competitive advantage

Two entrepreneurs in Mexico and Brazil are marketing highly efficient vehicles to reduce emissions and meet growing transport demand.

Tuberculosis infection rates stabilize, World Water Day 2007, the rising demand for good governance, rural electricity startups in India, new microfinance research, and more articles in the Next 4 Billion series.

The first article in a weekly series that profiles innovative businesses in rapidly developing countries that are turning the greatest environmental challenges into market opportunities.

How does climate change affect the corporate competitive landscape? This article by WRI’s Jonathan Lash and Fred Wellington in the Harvard Business Review discusses the risks and opportunities.

A new WRI/IFC Report shows for the first time how big the opportunity is to reduce proverty through private sector strategies. And it’s a bigger market than previously thought.

The “missing middle” in development.

EMBARQ’s workshops at TRB’s annual meeting, why SMEs are on the right side of history, the Fair and Lovely debate continues, expanding connectivity in rural communities, and the “U-Curve” theory of education.

BOP conferences and debates, women entrepreneurs in India, child well-being in rich countries, and at-risk orangutans in Indonesia.

Sending cell phone time to the Philippines, a replacement for teak in India, increasing U.S. fish consumption, forest certification, and the GEO 2007.