Natalie Wieder

Natalie Wieder '10 spent the summer working for the Indian School of Business’s Center for Emerging Market Solutions, which was formally inaugurated within the school in March of 2009. The center is committed to investigating inclusive economic growth for the purpose of solving a myriad of problems in developing and emerging markets, including poverty. The center focuses its research on the private sector, specifically small and medium size businesses. Natalie analyzed small and medium sized businesses to determine needs across a sector. She used this research to make recommendations on possible equity investments in impactful organizations.

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The Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS) is an inter-disciplinary think-tank at the Indian School of Business with the explicit mandate to investigate the inclusive economic development of India and other emerging markets.

CEMS has been set up with the conviction that market-based solutions exist for a large number of the developing world's problems, as long as new products and services are developed, proof-of-concept demonstrated, and capital is made available from a variety of sources. It is also important to note that the socio-economic problems of developing countries are fundamentally interlinked and cannot therefore be addressed in isolation. There are real market opportunities in addressing the problems of developing economies.

CEMS takes a systems approach to economic development and focuses on six interrelated foundational elements: Small business and Finance; Affordable Housing and Urbanization; Education; Healthcare; Energy; and Philanthropy. Urbanization enables the efficient and affordable delivery of infrastructural services through scale, scope and agglomeration economies to populations across the economic spectrum. CEMS appreciates the links between education, businesses, and financing on the one hand, and income and employment generation on the other, and promotes the use of innovative solutions in them. CEMS seeks to influence public policy necessary for economic growth by creating an enabling environment for the imaginative use of appropriate technologies and solutions.

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