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Global Ideas News Brief: Managing disaster risks + the globalization conversation

Innovations to change sustainable industries, how natural disasters keep people poor and the new globalization. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

T-shirts, technology and trade: Planet Money host says experimentation, not theory, key to cutting poverty

Making t-shirts can help lift a country out of poverty, but t-shirts alone no longer cut it, according to economic journalist Adam Davidson.

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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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Sustainable Energy

Nom, Nom, Nom: The Earth Will Eat Itself

We're plundering the earth’s natural resources at an incredibly fast rate--so fast that the planet cannot keep pace. But innovations and investments in renewable energy offer a glimmer of hope.

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Sustainable Energy

Poverty and climate change: An interview with Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps senior climate change advisor

When Cyclone Nargis ravaged Myanmar in 2008, inundating its lowlands and killing some 138,000 people, experts blamed the severe weather conditions on climate change.

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Why are some countries poor? Planet Money host will share his theories in Portland

Why are some countries rich and some poor? Economists have been trying to answer that doozy for decades. Adam Davidson thinks we're close to an answer.
Come hear him speak at Mercy Corps.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Starbucks in Colombia + Afghans' views on Western influence

Staff picks: What we're reading this week. Wiring the world, Starbucks opens in Bogota, and Afghans share their view on the West's influence.

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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

Legos may be our best tool to explain climate change and population growth

Hans Rosling, a world renowned statistician and public speaker, uses toy blocks to explain global poverty, overpopulation, unequal distribution of wealth, and climate change.

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Sustainable Energy

The fortune at the bottom of the ocean: Mozambique’s looming natural gas boom

The solution to Mozambique’s long-standing economic woes might lurk beneath the Indian Ocean’s rocky sea floor.

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Sustainable Energy

Sun, wind and water: Brazil's ingredients for the best beaches--and alternative energy

Brazil, the third largest consumer of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, is on the brink of energy independence.

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Value Chains

Help a Bolivian farmer: Eat quinoa

Andean farmers have enjoyed an economic bonanza from growing quinoa. But the farmers' success may prove their undoing, as farmers in the United States and Canada have begun growing the grain.

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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.