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Global Ideas News Brief: Entrepreneurs vs. Multinationals

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

Solving the world’s water issues: How focusing on profit can help the poor

When leading water technology company Xylem started manufacturing simple pumps for smallholder farmers, it wasn't for charity, the company expected to profit.

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Value Chains

Connecting farmers with markets

Damyad Rumagam's family has grown nutmeg for generations. As they make connections with global buyers, the price they earn for the spice is increasing.

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Youth Skills

Quotable: People don't just need jobs

When you boil charity down, it’s really a wealth transfer mechanism. It’s good for what it’s good for, but it’s not creating wealth, it’s not creating prosperity. It’s keeping people from tragedy or disaster, which is its proper role.

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Youth Skills

A gold standard to develop young talent: Can it work in emerging markets?

In the global youth unemployment crisis, Germany sets the gold standard for technical and vocational education and training. And that’s the problem. Is the gold standard too high-cost and high-touch to be adopted elsewhere?

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Value Chains

Beyond Fair Trade: Portland roaster and coffee farmers make a family

At a time when fair trade certification was a hallmark of the coffee industry, Nossa Familia Coffee established a different model. To learn more about how the small company is fair without ‘fair trade,’ Global Envision visited the family's Portland, Ore., roastery.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Market measurement + Easterly's book

The Central African Republic's complex war, market measurement and hunger in North Korea. Staff picks: what we're reading this week

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Global Ideas News Brief: Last mile design + Funding startups

Last mile design, funding startups, and a the end of the 'developing world.' Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Financial Inclusion

Public funding for financial inclusion increases, despite tight government budgets

Despite tough economic times, governments are increasing support to extend financial services to the world’s 2.5 billion ‘bankless’ adults.

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Youth Skills

Tackling youth unemployment – whose job is it?

As the global skills gap blights young people’s prospects, it also undermines business and economic growth and prosperity. Employers have a stake in closing the gap.

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Social Enterprise

Farm business advisors deliver products and profits to Cambodia’s rural farmers

Lors Thmey, which means ‘new growth’ in Khmer, sells a bundled package to Cambodian farmers that provides farming necessities and technical know-how through a business model designed to boost incomes, share knowledge and create value at each step of the supply chain.

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Value Chains

Growing KFC: When exploiting markets may exploit farmers

Kentucky Fried Chicken is expanding in Africa and local farmers could benefit. But the aid organizations connecting farmers to the company may actually be setting them up for disaster.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Bill Gates debunks 3 myths about the world's poor

Bill and Melinda Gates believe that by 2035 there will be almost no poor countries. This year they warn that pessimistic viewpoints may harm the world's chances.

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Value Chains

Zimbabwe case study: Lessons from a buyer's experience of mobile money

Last August, small-scale farmers in rural Zimbabwe were preparing to harvest their crop of chilies just like they do every year. But this harvest would be like none other.