Microfinance Duel: SKS’ Akula gives advice and admits Muhammad Yunus was right

I spent the past weekend at the great 13th Social Enterprise Conference at Harvard University (you can find my impression of the conference here). Of the two-day gathering, one moment was particularly interesting: ex-chairman of SKS Microfinance gave a humbling talk about failure during Saturday night’s networking reception.

Akula during the Social Enterprise Conference 2012  |  Photo cred: @RxFogarty  |  Check Rob’s beautiful work at www.dearworld.me

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Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Growth

It is finally out!*
Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo’s latest baby is out and is downloadable here.
The Atlas measures the diversity of productive knowledge of 128 countries, and determines their growth potential accordingly. The top 10 countries are *drum roll* (extract from the press release):

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