Archive - Aug 2, 2006

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Ethical Investing

Previously filed under: Business
Socially responsible investment allows people to put their money where their morals are.

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A Recipe for Job Creation in India

Topics: Women
Countries: India
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Lijjat Papad, a cooperative papadam business, has improved the lives of 41,000 members, mostly iliterate women, through an innovative business model.

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Winning One for the GIPper?

Previously filed under: Asia, Trade
The Gaeseong Industrial Park is the centerpiece of new inter-Korean economic cooperation. Will the US play along?

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PanAfrica - Aid for the Poor, Not for the Consultants

Previously filed under: Africa, Global Economy
A new report reveals that aid funding is often diverted back into its country of origin, or spent inefficiently on foreign consultants.

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Career Counseling for the Twenty-First Century

Previously filed under: Student Opportunities
Yale University's Chief Econmist, Robert J. Shiller, offers career advice for the new global labor market.

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Challenges Facing Europe in a World of Globalization

Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Environment
Helle C. Dale of the Heritage Foundation discusses how a lack of economic liberalization is besetting European countries with profound problems.

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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

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.

More African nations hit agricultural investment target

Science and Development Network - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:45
Five more African countries have met the Maputo Declaration goal of investing ten per cent of their national budgets in agriculture.

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