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Iqbal Quadir Upends Development

The Legatum Center at MIT, Quadir’s latest brainchild, provides a ground-breaking approach to development studies.

Categories: Asia, Bangladesh, Information and Communication Technology

Creating Empowerment

The best way to help a people is to help them help themselves.  To this end, Iqbal Quadir is developing a new, portable technology that will enable rural Bangladeshi to generate electricity from cow dung.

Categories: Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Energy, Mobile Technologies

Opportunity comes calling

“Connectivity is productivity”: the story behind Iqbal Quadir’s mantra and how it is proving to ring very true for rural Bangladesh.

Categories: Asia, Bangladesh, Microfinance, Mobile Technologies

Cell Phones for the World’s Poor

Debate over technology’s impact on the living standards of those in low-income countries.
 

Categories: Asia, Bangladesh, Bottom-up Development, Economics , Entrepreneurship

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