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Segmenting the industry, though, might not be so bad if it allows more of the poor to get access to credit. Let multinational corporations take the top microfinance institutions to the next level, and leave the bottom of the pyramid to development groups and regional banks. That's what Ecobank is doing in Africa. The Togo-based company, with operations in 22 countries, has for years acted as a banker to microfinance groups, taking deposits and writing loans. Over that time, Ecobank has grown hip to the business model and last year launched a microfinance institution...
...there were a junk food hall of fame, the original Pringles can would stand proudly next to a Toblerone pyramid in the exhibit on ingenious packaging shapes. Baur's canister has become a treasured symbol of snack culture around the globe, as recognizable as a Hershey bar or Coke can from Argentina to Zambia...
...Baur's Pringles can helped inspire a burst of innovation in supermarket product packaging. In the tradition of the culinary pioneers who transformed Toblerone into a pyramid, cheese into string and doughnut holes into round Munchkins, here are a few post-Baur supermarket design triumphs...
Eating healthy can be difficult, especially during finals. To make the task easier, the Harvard School of Public Health has just revamped its user-friendly food pyramid model. The department of nutrition at the school has relaunched its Web site, www.thenutritionsource.org, complete with a free, downloadable version of its Healthy Eating Pyramid. The pyramid was updated by researchers at the school to present the latest data in a clear, straightforward way. “We want to have the latest science available to the public in a way that can help them to eat well and stay healthy...
...private sector and the public sector can work together to improve living conditions for impoverished Latin Americans. Luis A. Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, talked about the past inclinations of the Latin American private sector, which focused on the higher classes of the economic pyramid and on external markets. “Those companies that did not enter the international arena did so at their own peril, and many disappeared,” Moreno said. “Yet there is an opportunity today for growth and innovation, and an even bigger opportunity to leverage...