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Sweet Science - Sri Lanka's Rural Treacle Industry

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: Asia, Agriculture

New technology has improved the prospects of the treacle industry.

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Keywords: Treacle, agriculture, technology

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Globalinc - An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: North America, Book and Film Reviews

As the nature, reach, and power of multinational corporations grows, so does their influence.

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Keywords: Multinational, corporation, business,

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Hortense Zevonnou - Social Entrepreneur

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories

Hortense Zevonnou runs a successful salon in Benin, West Africa, after recieving help from an ACCION International partner program.

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Keywords: Social entrepreneurialism, entrepreneur, Africa, ACCION

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Marcelino Lopez - Microfinance Success Story

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: South America, Success Stories

Marcelino Lopez succeeds with the help of an ACCION partner group.

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Keywords: ACCION, mircolending, Columbia, entrepreneur

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Fair Trade for All - How Trade Can Promote Development

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: Book and Film Reviews

In a new book Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton offer a controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries develop and prosper.

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Keywords: fair trade, protectionism, wto, Doha, Cancun

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Forging Environmentalism

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: Book and Film Reviews

Drawing on an unusually rich empirical base, this timely and compelling book examines how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process.

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Keywords: environment, values, policy, environmental values

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Institutional Change - A Modest Proposal

Posted on August 4, 2006

Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories

Exploring the idea of an X-prize for institutional change and global prosperity may prove to limit the scope of "bad" organizations.

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Keywords: Social Entreprenearship, entrepreneaurialism, prize, philanthropy

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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.