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Global Ideas News Brief: Taxing telcos + Affordable insurance

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

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Sustainable Energy

Weighing in on Obama’s Power Africa program: Pros and cons

President Obama’s plan to double power to sub-Saharan Africa has people buzzing about an Africa where energy poverty is a thing of the past.

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Sustainable Energy

A stunning graphic that might change your perceptions of climate change in the developing world

Climate change receives a lot of attention--powerful storms, severe droughts, frequent floods, and rising temperatures. But climate change policy, on the other hand, is eternally made a back-burner issue.

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Social Enterprise

The William Davidson Institute announces its Bottom of the Pyramid Summit

Set for October 21, the three-day event takes stock and charts a course.

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Sustainable Energy

India's energy sector gets a $100 million boost and a nudge from U.S. Secretary of State

India, the fourth-largest consumer of energy worldwide, is showing the rest of the world how to eradicate energy poverty by looking skyward towards the sun.

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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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Sustainable Energy

The end of energy poverty? Developing nations invest $112 billion in renewable energy

From Azerbaijan--where the wind blows 250 days per year--to the swift moving current of Zimbabwe’s bountiful rivers, developing countries worldwide are increasing efforts to invest in renewable energy.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Impact investing's big money + e-money in Latin America

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

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Value Chains

Brother or bully: Leaders squabble over role of big business in alleviating global hunger

The G8’s goal to increase private sector investment in Africa could offer new solutions to global hunger or it could be the new face of a failed solution.

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Value Chains

Free trade between the U.S. and EU could change the dynamic of value chains in Africa

A free trade agreement between the U.S. and EU could provide a much needed economic boost, but not for banana farmers in Ghana.

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Ebay founder on impact investing

Global capitalism has left billions of people behind. But the founder of ebay says we need to apply the power of that same market to help solve stubborn economic and social challenges.

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The world has already halved poverty - can we eradicate it by 2030?

Between 1990 and 2010, one billion people were lifted out of extreme poverty. Is it possible to do that again?

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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.

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Value Chains

Interview: Helping coffee farmers turns competitors into colleagues

We talk with Green Mountain Coffee about their new hunger-busting coalition with Starbucks, Counter Culture, Farmer Brothers, S&D Coffee, and Sustainable Harvest.

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Youth Skills

Tailored skills training needed as global youth unemployment rates rise

Preparing youth for jobs will look different in Sweden than in Swaziland. But with almost 73 million youth unemployed around the globe, strategies to reverse the trend are in demand everywhere.