Voices from Emerging Markets

By Rama Siva in India
Our lives are often filled with practical questions which we answer these days through the internet. Likewise, the lives of the poor are filled with questions that directly affect their quality of life such as “Where can I get a cheap loan?”, “What should I do about swine flu?”, “I can [...]

Africa as a continent, despite its extreme poverty, has opened itself up to novel development initiatives thanks to the prevalence of cell-phones throughout the population. Uganda, one of the poorest nations in the world with close to half of the population living on less than $1.25/day, is also home to 10 million cell phone owners. [...]