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Brandon Gast is a former Global Envision intern who majored in International Studies with a focus on African Studies at Portland State University. He has traveled to Kenya and Cameroon, and studied in West Africa for a year as a Rotary scholar. He is passionate about fly fishing, cycling and photography.

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Recent Posts

Jun 13, 2008 - Trade Protests in South Korea
Jun 5, 2008 - Big Prices, Big Oil, Big Trouble?
May 15, 2008 - From Gold Medals to Fair-Trade Cotton
May 6, 2008 - Mexico's North-South Divide
Feb 27, 2008 - Ghana: Optimistic About Oil
Feb 13, 2008 - High-tech Leapfrog
Feb 7, 2008 - An Innovative Harvest
Feb 7, 2008 - Rwanda's Wall Street?
Jan 30, 2008 - Monetary Flu Season
Jan 24, 2008 - China's Unshaken GDP


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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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