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Social Enterprise

Interview: Rogue Venture Partner's Tom Sperry on Mentoring Entrepreneurs in Palestine

All startups face the universal challenge of transforming an idea into an attractive investment. An integral part of this process, according to Tom Sperry, is finding a good mentor.

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Youth Skills

As the developing world booms, old multinationals quake

In the next 15 years, the number of people in the consuming class will double and, for the first time ever, emerging markets will have more purchasing power than developed economies combined.

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As Asia's tigers shred poverty rates, Africa still lags

As China and India boast drastically reduced poverty rates and a rising middle class, countries once considered their counterparts in underdevelopment still lag behind.

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An interview with Global Envision's founder on our 10th anniversary

When many youth and NGOs protested the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle in 1999, Global Envision’s founder Bill Early saw an opportunity to create a dialogue about how globalization and capitalism could help lift people out of poverty. This idea eventually became Global Envision.

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Mobile Technology

Greased by mobile money, remittances may accelerate even more

Global remittances are on the rise. Now, coupled with mobile technology, cross-border payments are even more effective at spurring poverty alleviation, but women may lag behind.

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Mobile Technology

Coming to America: Mobile money. Why NGOs should care

Mobile money's wildfire spread across the developing world has been so successful that it's about to remake the rich world, too.

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Value Chains

Two companies making trade fairer without 'fair trade'

When fair trade farming didn’t pay enough for one farmer to make ends meet, he started a new coffee company to take control of the production process and boost profits.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Land O'Lakes seeds economic opportunity and peace through dairy farming

How do you boost farmers in post-conflict regions like Sri Lanka? Jon Halverson of Land O'Lakes discusses how the U.S. dairy co-op blended commercial and development work in an interview on DevEx.

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Youth Skills

With new envoy, UN turns its eyes to youth issues

Ahmad Alhendawi is a newly appointed envoy, the first of his position, assigned to represent the most critical demographic of our time: youth.

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Financial Inclusion

Quotable: Africa alone has more mobile money users than Facebook does worldwide

There are now more mobile money activity users in Africa than there are users of Facebook.

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Financial Inclusion

Mobile-powered and dirt cheap, Bima is revolutionizing microinsurance

Bima, a young Swedish microinsurance company, is using mobile phones to sell as many as three billion new insurance policies to the global poor.

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Mobile Technology

Food or phone? Study finds some poor Kenyans choose the second

In Kenya, using one’s mobile phone is now often considered to be more of a priority than eating or paying utility bills.

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Social Enterprise

Africa is finally booming, but don’t break out the champagne yet

Africans are celebrating levels of economic growth and political stability that were unthinkable just 10 years ago, but without the appropriate economic and political reforms, the continent could quickly relapse.

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Social Enterprise

Will corruption suffocate Africa's new tech incubators?

As hopes rise for a Silicon Revolution in Africa, two incubators are using different tactics to create tech success stories, while meddling government policies are dampening the optimism.