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Global Ideas News Brief: Big names weigh in on global inequality

Bill Gates on global poverty, the case for global aid and rising to the challenge of youth unemployment. Staff Picks: what we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Improving microinsurance + Building peace online

Improving microinsurance, building peace online, and why solar lamps are like cash transfers. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Doha deal + Banking on the world's poorest

Banking on the world's poorest, the first Doha deal, and how the promise of prosperity may be the key to foreign policy. Staff picks: what we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Financing coffee + The Pope's capitalism commentary

Financing coffee, developing countries' thirst for energy and the Pope's capitalism. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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3 vital factors that really matter in building resilience

When a combination of crises struck Somalia in 2010, famine left millions in need of emergency assistance. But not all. We wanted to know why.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Climate insurance + Arab startups

Climate insurance, Arab startups, and a get-rich way to help the poor. Staff picks: what we're reading this week.

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Mobile Technology

The Technology of Nonviolence: How cellphones and crowdsourcing are saving lives and livelihoods

Simple technology is quelling violent conflict in poor countries, and helping people make money as a result.

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Social Enterprise

Philippines post Super Typhoon Haiyan: How small business boosts economies after natural disasters

After a natural disaster, social enterprises can help rebuild economies by stimulating entrepreneurial activity.

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Global Ideas News Brief: High tech toilets + Black market medicine

High tech toilets, black market malaria medication and building resilience. Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Twitter and international development: Who to follow and why

Here's a list of three interesting users to follow for each of Global Envision’s six beats.

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Mercy Corps mobilizes emergency response team to Philippines

Mercy Corps is mobilizing a team of emergency responders, including experts in water, sanitation and logistics, into the areas devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Pyramid schemes + Complex stories

Face to face contact works for Africa's poorest customers, the promise of small-scale Ag and why NGOs should tell complex stories. Staff picks: what we're reading this week

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Social Enterprise

EcoZoom: A Three Part Model For Doing Business in Africa

EcoZoom is bringing safer, cleaner cookstoves to relief, development, and commercial markets in Somalia, Rwanda, and Kenya.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Hope in Congo + Another Kiva

Cash transfers are working, a look at income inequality and hope in the Congo. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week

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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.