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A Jakarta street vendor sells fried tofu. Informally employed tofu and tempeh workers are a major force in Indonesia's economy. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyna/5311474069/in/photostream/">Tommy N. Armansyah (Flickr)</a>

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Better tofu and tempe labels give Indonesian food firms a reason to clean up their act

Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer in Gaza. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps.

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Q&A with Mercy Corps CEO about market innovations to poverty

Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer and NextBillion's editor Scott Anderson discuss where Mercy Corps is heading and how its past has informed its future, especially when it comes to business development.

An improved sanitation system allows private sanitation companies to access new customers in narrow urban slums, where some of the 94 million Indonesians live without access to such services. Photo: Mercy Corps

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Value Chains

Disruptive sanitation: Can 3-wheeled carts and better septic tanks clean up Jakarta?

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

View of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region. Photo: Justin Cruanes

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Cash Cows: On the Ground with Georgia's Dairy Industry

My cab driver was yelling something that sounded like "khows, khows!" I hadn't the faintest idea what he was talking about until I saw the spotted figures in the distance and realized he was saying "cows."

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Staging a Sit-in to Demand a Future in Assam

Last May, about 40 teens showed up at Mercy Corps' India office in Assam to stage a sit-in. They had hired a truck to take them from their homes surrounding the Maud Tea Estate to Mercy Corps' Assam office...not an easy drive.

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Afghanistan's Women Mean Business

This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.

Some of the thousands stuck at the Salloum border between Libya and Egypt. The situation on the Tunisian border is much worse. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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Libya's Border Crisis

This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.

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The Leaders of Now

This has been reposted from The Mercy Corps Blog.

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Basic Technology Boosts Incomes in Zimbabwe

This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.

Rajan taught his father how to write his name and is now teaching his mother and older sister to do the same. Photo: Leah Hazard/Mercy Corps

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One in Ninety-Eight

Ninety-eight. That's the number of kids in Rajan Tiru's class. He's in class nine — the equivalent of ninth grade in the U.S. Next year he'll be in class 10 and will need to pass a big exam so he can continue his studies.

Nomadic herders tending to their flock. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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'Dzud' of a Winter Hurts Mongolia's Herders

All Mongolian winters are bitterly cold, but for the most extreme, the Mongols have a special word: a "dzud," which loosely translates as "crisis."

More and more donations are being made by text. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrparis/144119309/">JR Paris (Flickr)</a>

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Generation e-Philanthropy

When you think of a philanthropist, what comes to mind? Someone who has a lot of discretionary income and can donate thousands to their favorite charities? That is definitely philanthropy and we love it, but you do not have to have thousands in order to be a philanthropist.