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Mera Gao Power: Men installing solar panels

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Sustainable Energy

To feed its growth, India weighs coal subsidies against solar ones

Could decentralized, solar energy be the solution to India’s power poverty?

Youth Spark works to support youth education, especially in the tech sector. Photo: <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/youthspark/youthsparkhub/”> Youth Spark (Microsoft)</a>

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Social Enterprise

Microsoft's new core philanthropy: Training kids to make software

Microsoft is rethinking its charity strategies to spread the spark of high-tech education—and maybe to train its own future employees.

Money is pouring into Africa, but where is it landing? Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/5094797180/lightbox/"> World Bank (Flickr)</a>

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Does African investment only help the investors?

Some African communities are realizing the recent surge in international investment isn't all good news.

Addis Ababa-based entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun at the World Economic Forum in May 2012. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/7169657482/sizes/z/in/photostream/">World Economic Forum (Flickr)</a>

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Quotable: 'People don't want to be not poor'

Bethlehem Tilahun, Ethiopian entrepreneur and founder of SoleRebels Footwear, in the New York Times:

“As I entered college ... it had become clear to me that ‘poverty alleviation’ is a myth.”

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SOCAP Recap: Biggest announcements from this year’s conference

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Save the Children CEO on getting the most out of business + charity partnerships

Deep in the foothills of Darjeeling. Photo: Mercy Corps

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Teatime chat with Tazo and Starbucks

Kenyan flower farmers are making more money thanks to a new middleman. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2629345354/">Photo: World Bank (flickr)</a>

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Value Chains

Your Walmart bouquet may have been grown by these Kenyan farmers

Flower growers in Kenya have plenty to sell, but no buyers. Meanwhile big-box retailers in the U.S. and UK want more flowers. New research reveals that a middleman connecting them could be profitable for both.

In India, the more important debate over Walmart may not be about whether it sells to the poor but whether it buys from them. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37936363@N00/2206316223/">Bobinson K B (Flickr)</a>

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Value Chains

Poor Indians won't shop at Walmart - but will Walmart shop from them?

India's leaders say farmers will win big from last week's opening of the nation's retail market to multinationals.

As an insurance holder, she knows the next big storm won't wipe out all her assets. Photo: Fabiola Coupet/Mercy Corps

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Inside microinsurance, a view from Haiti

As Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti in late August, all eyes were watching to see whether the country would be overwhelmed by the latest storm.

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Mobile Technology

Why the real threat to Apple will be the $15 iPad

The SolarKiosk in an Ethipoian village provides electricity, products, and commerce for the community. Photo: <a href="http://www.solarkiosk.eu/?p=373"> SolarKiosk</a>

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SolarKiosk rolls self-powered electricity stores into Ethiopia

A mobile, modular kiosk is bringing solar power and products to off-the-grid communities in Ethiopia, and creating a business hub in the process.

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

Children enjoying a book Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681455@N00/2969510/”>Stitch (Flickr)</a>

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Competitive reading: Philippine reading contests boost student scores

Raising students' reading ability takes only a month when competition is involved.

Gaza developers and entrepreneurs participating Arab Developer Network Initiative (ADNI) Launch Event in partnership with Mercy Corps in Gaza. Photo: Eyad Baba for Mercy Corps.

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Quotable: The Palestinian tech sector is primed for exponential growth, spurred by youth

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To feed its growth, India weighs coal subsidies against solar ones

Microsoft's new core philanthropy: Training kids to make software

Does African investment only help the investors?

Quotable: 'People don't want to be not poor'

SOCAP Recap: Biggest announcements from this year’s conference

Save the Children CEO on getting the most out of business + charity partnerships

Teatime chat with Tazo and Starbucks

Your Walmart bouquet may have been grown by these Kenyan farmers

Poor Indians won't shop at Walmart - but will Walmart shop from them?

Inside microinsurance, a view from Haiti

Why the real threat to Apple will be the $15 iPad

SolarKiosk rolls self-powered electricity stores into Ethiopia

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

Competitive reading: Philippine reading contests boost student scores

Quotable: The Palestinian tech sector is primed for exponential growth, spurred by youth

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