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Innovating Bangladesh

Iqbal Quadir’s Anwarul Quadir Prize, named after his father, rewards innovators in Bangladesh.

Categories: Bangladesh, Cambridge

Seabed microbe study leads to low-cost power, light for the poor

New fuel cell technology may prove to be an ideal low-cost power source.

Categories: Bangladesh, Cambridge, Energy, Water

Differing Visions

“Bottom-up” versus “Top-down”: Iqbal Quadir (GrameenPhone and Emergence Bio) and Nicholas Negroponte (One Laptop Per Child) share their views on development.

Categories: Bangladesh, Bottom-up Development

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

Foreign Aid Letter

In this note to the Editor, Iqbal Quadir refutes the assumption that government aid provides an effective means of alleviating problems in the developing world. 

 

Categories: Agriculture, Economics , Europe, Foreign Aid

125 Influential People and Ideas

The Wharton of Business honors Iqbal Quadir as one of its one-hundred-twenty-five most influential alumni.

Categories: Bangladesh, Economics , Foreign Aid

Power to the People

Iqbal Quadir applies the model he developed for GrameenPhone to the production and dissemination of low-cost electricity.   

Categories: Bangladesh, Mobile Technologies, Water

Why not capitalism for developing countries?

In this interview with GrameenPhone founder Iqbal Quadir, Quadir explains why he believes that capitalism can empower, rather than exploit, the low-income populations of the developing world.

Categories: Economics , Energy

Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: The Loan Ranger

Iqbal Quadir proposes a novel approach to addressing international trade imbalances.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Economics

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