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Global Ideas News Brief: Tech hubs in Libya and Egypt + Western Union goes mobile

Turmoil doesn't stop entrepreneurs in Egypt and Libya, Western Union gets further in to mobile money and land grabs may not the the most profitable option. Staff picks: What we're reading this week

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Value Chains

How to survive on less than five acres in India: Three ways farmers can go mobile

Smallholder farmers are overwhelmingly poor and have little control over the ups and downs of the marketplace. Three organizations are helping smallholder farmers turn the tables through mobile technology.

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Mobile Technology

Quotable: Internet for the next 5 billion people

Will extending Internet access to the world's poorest solve all social problems? Yunus and Zuckerberg think so.

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Sustainable Energy

Unlocking Uganda’s potential market for fuel-efficient stoves

There’s significant demand for fuel-efficient stoves in northern Uganda, where 76 percent of the population relies on open fires for cooking. But tapping into that market is easier said than done.

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Mobile Technology

Testing the future of emergency assistance

A quiet revolution is underway to streamline the delivery of assistance to people in crisis — using the most prolific technology in the world. And it could help people become more financially literate and secure for the long-run.

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Youth Skills

A new way to finance education: Pay what you earn

Would you sell a stake in your future for a college degree? Oregon just joined a number of private companies making the idea a reality, and the solution could mean more underprivileged youth get the education they need to get ahead.

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Value Chains

How big money is fighting HIV and malaria in Uganda

Impact investors wondering where the big money is should look no farther than Quality Chemical Industries, whose multi-million dollar headquarters produces low-cost antiretroviral drugs while spurring local manufacturing.

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Value Chains

Developing the tractor-for-hire business in post-conflict northern Uganda

As opportunity grows in northern Uganda after 20 years of violent conflict, farmers are building back and reinvesting in the land. But a lack of tractors could keep the region hungry.

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Social Enterprise

Move over, angel investors, crowdfunding is changing the rules of the game

As banks rein in lending options for entrepreneurs, crowdfunding’s popularity is off the charts and continuing to rise.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Is there an app to save the world?

New! Staff picks: A roundup of news we're reading this week.

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Social Enterprise

From the pitch to the prize: building a company in 54 hours

Pitching your startup can be nerve-wracking. You’re condensing the idea you’ve dreamed about for months into a few sentences and sharing it with a group of strangers who can crush it or allow you to nurture it into a full-blown company.

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Financial Inclusion

Bank Andara: A bank for banks in Indonesia grows micro businesses and turns a profit

The first of its kind, a wholesale bank called Bank Andara has been making tech-savvy banking services available to the Indonesian microfinance sector for four years, now achieving a profit.

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Mobile Technology

Quotable: Grameen Intel CEO believes in leading with education, not technology

Although Grameen Intel is a social business that aims to use technology to solve social problems, especially in agriculture and healthcare, its CEO emphasized the role of education in addressing the world's toughest challenges.

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Social Enterprise

Tech startup finds the ticket to growth with old ideas

A brand-new Mexican tech startup is making its products affordable using a centuries-old financing trick that lets startups and their customers shift their risk toward third-party investors.

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Social Enterprise

As public and private firms blur, Seoul mayor calls it perfectly natural

Social innovation is slowly spreading to virtually every sector of the global economy, according to the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s summer issue.