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Global Ideas News Brief: Haiti's earthquake anniversary

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

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Value Chains

Quotable: Africa-- Seeing past the headlines

Elizabeth Littlefield argues that we promote two starkly different images of sub-Saharan Africa and overlook the true opportunities this diverse continent has to offer.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Food security and oil

A weekly round-up 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

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

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Youth Skills

What’s in a degree? China vs. India

What does it mean to be one of the world’s only billion-person economies? Well, for one thing: millions and millions of students.

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Youth Skills

Quotable: India's education

In sheer size alone, India’s efforts to improve the quality of its education system will seriously affect the future of global development.

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Global Ideas News Brief: A critical look at aid

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

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Value Chains

International Day for Abolishing Slavery: The Facts

Sixty-five years after the United Nations officially condemned human trafficking, slavery quietly flourishes in every corner of the globe, from Hong Kong to Bangladesh to Russia to, yes, the United States.

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Global Ideas News Brief: International development conundrum

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

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Financial Inclusion

World Bank President faces staff mutiny amid reform

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is catching heat for his efforts to reform the organization.

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Social Enterprise

5 great development solutions coming out of the Clinton Global Initiative

Rather than simply discussing “what should be done,” the Clinton Global Initiative asks participants to create specific, actionable steps--putting money where their mouths are.

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Social Enterprise

Companies target billion-dollar potential by marketing to the poor

Creating and marketing products to sell to the poor is a tricky business, a game of trial and error. There appears to be no formula for success, only a few guiding principles. And the products that sell are not always what we would expect.

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5 questions for Charles Kenny: Why the world is getting better

Charles Kenny argues that global development is actually succeeding--and he has the data to prove it. Hear him speak at the Mercy Corps Action Center, Thursday, October 9.

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Global Ideas News Brief: NGOs vs. big business

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

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Value Chains

Make your clothes worth wearing: how global brands are (finally) investing in factory workers

Companies have been taking steps to improve workers’ lives in emerging markets for years--this project stands out for involving the biggest of the big brands.