HMS Wireless » Recent Reports http://www.hmswireless.com/blog Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:58:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Emerging Markets, Emerging Models http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/26/emerging-markets-emerging-models/ http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/26/emerging-markets-emerging-models/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:43:46 +0000 Loretta http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/?p=19 The Monitor Group, a consulting firm, has just issued a very interesting report entitled “Emerging Markets, Emerging Models: Market-Based Solutions to the Challenges of Global Poverty.”  As they point out in the Exec Summary, ”market-based solutions have recently attracted strong interest in the campaign against global poverty, in part due to the remarkable success of microfinance. They are relatively new, with an uneven performance record, and there is much yet to learn about what causes them to succeed or fail. The most successful pass two tests: they are self-funding, and they operate at sufficient scale to make a difference to masses of poor people. They also have one salient feature in common: a business model tailored to the special circumstances of markets at the base of the income pyramid.”

The report looks at data from a number of sources and field studies, with a particular focus on India, and comes up with lessons learned as well as 7 business models, tailored to the circumstances of low-income groups, that they believe have the best chance of success.  Definitely required reading for those of us interested in market-based solutions for the bottom of the pyramid.

]]> http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/26/emerging-markets-emerging-models/feed/ 0 Latest Vodafone Policy Paper http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/19/latest-vodafone-policy-paper/ http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/19/latest-vodafone-policy-paper/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:41:21 +0000 Loretta http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/?p=14 Vodafone recently released another set of reports as part of its Policy Paper series, this one focusing on mobiles in India, particularly their economic impacts.  This is the latest in the series of reports they’ve done on mobile telephony, with a couple of the earlier ones focusing on Africa and Mobile Transactions.  All the reports in this series are well worth reading.

]]> http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/19/latest-vodafone-policy-paper/feed/ 0 Latest reports from HMS http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/12/latest-reports-from-hms/ http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/2009/03/12/latest-reports-from-hms/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:06:04 +0000 Loretta http://www.hmswireless.com/blog/?p=7 Here are links to a couple of our latest reports.  The first one is a “Top 20″ list of the latest research into mobile phones’ social and economic impact in the developing world, done on behalf of the GSM Association in London.  The second is a look at the use of biometric technologies and their use in mobile banking in the developing world, done for the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC.

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