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Global Ideas News Brief: Sanitation + Ag entrepreneurs

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Women + Unemployment in Africa

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

What the pivoting IMF mandate means for the poor

The International Monetary Fund is known for its multi-billion dollar bailouts of struggling countries, but the watchdog for global economic stability now says narrowing the income gap between the very poor and the very rich is a key tenet of its mission.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Accountability

Staff picks for the week of June 24th, 2014.

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Youth Skills

World Bank on Youth Employment in Africa

African youth represent potential for the continent, but innovation is needed to employ the growing cohort.

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Social Enterprise

Mapping Change in the Amazon: How Satellite Images are Halting Deforestation

In the Brazilian Amazon, a group of scientists have become unconventional crusaders in the battle to halt deforestation.

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GLOBAL IDEAS NEWS BRIEF: JOBS REMAIN SCARCE + RURAL MARKETS GROW

A weekly roundup of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Entrepreneurs vs. Multinationals

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Social Enterprise

One woman’s quest to solve poverty through better design

Motivated by social inequality, Heather Fleming is bringing human-centered design to the developing world.

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Value Chains

Beyond Fair Trade: Portland roaster and coffee farmers make a family

At a time when fair trade certification was a hallmark of the coffee industry, Nossa Familia Coffee established a different model. To learn more about how the small company is fair without ‘fair trade,’ Global Envision visited the family's Portland, Ore., roastery.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Market measurement + Easterly's book

The Central African Republic's complex war, market measurement and hunger in North Korea. Staff picks: what we're reading this week

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Youth Skills

Sudan’s next top entrepreneur: It’s a hit!

Sudan’s first business-oriented reality show is taking the country by storm, inspiring entrepreneurs in a country where entrepreneurship is rare, undervalued and fraught with challenges.

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Social Enterprise

Travel restrictions, blackouts can't stop Gaza tech entrepreneur

Launching a tech startup in Gaza means facing some unique challenges. Mohammed Awad is beating the odds.

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Social Enterprise

China's social enterprise movement set to blast off

Embarrassed by scandals in its traditional charity sector, China is urging a bigger role for social enterprise in society and the economy. In response, socially-minded businesses are taking off.

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Value Chains

Profiting from poop: How selling human waste could revolutionize sanitation

Dealing with human waste has become a health crisis in many poor communities, but residents of a Kenyan slum have found a solution that turns poop into profit.