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Value Chains

Elections: Indonesia faces new economic era, same old problems

What you need to know about Indonesia’s growing economy, rising global leadership and remaining development challenges.

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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: 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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Value Chains

The curse on gum arabic in Sudan

Gum arabic is a little ingredient with a big footprint in food and medicine around the world. Despite high demand, its producers face an incredible spread of challenges.

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Financial Inclusion

This is what financial inclusion looks like: CGAP announces photo contest winners

A man stacks bricks on his head to carry. Another sells newspapers. Three women carry fishing nets across golden sand dunes. These images, among the winners of CGAP’s annual photo contest, portray workers at the bottom of the economic pyramid around the world.

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Financial Inclusion

Quotable: The Internet’s transformative potential in Africa

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute highlights the economic power of the Internet in Africa.

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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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Mobile Technology

Short film: Uganda’s love of mobile money

In just over four years, 9 million Ugandans have jumped aboard the mobile money bandwagon-- buying, selling and saving with their mobile devices.

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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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Financial Inclusion

Infographic: Why it’s Africa’s turn for an economic boom

Africa now has a $2 trillion economy, and it’s poised to keep growing--fast.

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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: Grapes in Afghanistan + Rodman in North Korea

Staff Picks: What we're reading this week. Afghan farmers face future uncertainty, Dennis Rodman talks about his N. Korea trip and the global elite's favorite strongman.

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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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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.