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Globalization Stories

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An ex-anarchist embraces globalization.

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The Mysterious Grain Drain

Posted on November 19, 2004

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There is a new crime in Zimbabwe - driving with food.

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Newsweek Editor Talks Globalization

Posted on November 19, 2004

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Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek, spoke on globalization at Southern Methodist University.

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Multinationals & NGOs

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From curse to cure.

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Remittances: Over the sea and far away

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05

For consumers who want to “wire” money to some far corner of the world, not much has changed since the days of the Old West. If you try to send a small amount of money from America to the Philippines, say, or Mexico, you will probably have to queue at a neighbourhood money-transfer agent and pay a fee that could easily reach 10% of the value of the remittance.

Mobile payments: A wealth of wallets

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05

Turn left off the main reception to PayPal’s offices in San Jose, open a nondescript door and you step into a garish living room dominated by a flat-screen television. This is a laboratory for what PayPal calls “couch commerce”: people sit in front of the television buying things with their mobile phones or tablet computers.

Expose, engage, empower: Connecting unlikely entrepreneurs in the mobile era

World Bank: Private Sector Development Blog - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:48

The infoDev team has taken a closer look at his and the other five finalists’ backgrounds, and we found some helpful insights about new sources of innovation, their promise, and their needs.

Breeding Wheat To Grow Where Other Plants Can’t

Fast Company's Co.Exist - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 14:00

We need to nearly double the amount of food we grow by mid-century if 9 billion people are going to have enough to eat. Yet most of the world’s prime farmland is already planted. The rest of the available land tends to lie under forests, or suffer from problems that keep it fallow. But feeding the world will mean redefining what is "arable" land.