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April 21st

From the Archives

The Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty

Posted on April 22, 2004
Previously filed under: North America, General Globalization
Property rights champion Hernando de Soto wins the 2004 Friedman prize for liberty.
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April 7th

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Small Small Business

Posted on April 8, 2004
Previously filed under: Individual
Microenterprises around the globe help create better lives for poor people.
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A Movement to Protect Taste in a Fast, Globalized World

Posted on April 8, 2004
Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Agriculture
Slow Food - An anti-globalization campaign, or one served by globalization?
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April 5th

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Global Envision Interns Win Entrepreneurship Award

Posted on April 6, 2004
Previously filed under: North America, Success Stories
Concordia University in Portland Oregon fields winning Students In Free Enterprise team.
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April 4th

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Entrepreneurs in Peru Develop Local Food Industry

Posted on April 5, 2004
Previously filed under: South America, Success Stories
Growing the pie for the benefit of communities, not just individual businesses.
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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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