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"We Are Now Stepping on Top of Money"

Posted on October 28, 2005

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories

Children in Zimbabwe learn, save, succeed with Internal Savings and Lending (IS&L) groups.

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Technology - Unit on Technology & Globalization

Posted on October 28, 2005

Previously filed under: Lesson Plans

This unit contains activities in which students learn about the global effects of information technology in the areas of health, education, and government.

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Grameen and the Question of Replicability

Posted on October 28, 2005

Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories

The author gives first hand perspective on key factors to be taken into consideration in the successful replication of the Grameen Bank model in other locations.

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Women and Globalization - Unit on Women and Globalization

Posted on October 28, 2005

Previously filed under: Lesson Plans

Despite the UN and government efforts, women in many places remain disadvantaged. In this unit, students will learn how globalization has helped lessen this phenomenon.

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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.