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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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Youth Skills

Sudan’s next top entrepreneur: It’s a hit!

Sudan’s first business-oriented reality show is taking the country by storm, inspiring entrepreneurs in a country where entrepreneurship is rare, undervalued and fraught with challenges.

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Social Enterprise

Travel restrictions, blackouts can't stop Gaza tech entrepreneur

Launching a tech startup in Gaza means facing some unique challenges. Mohammed Awad is beating the odds.

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Social Enterprise

China's social enterprise movement set to blast off

Embarrassed by scandals in its traditional charity sector, China is urging a bigger role for social enterprise in society and the economy. In response, socially-minded businesses are taking off.

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Social Enterprise

Krochet Kids International reimagines empowerment with hook and stitch

A team of friends from Spokane is turning a love of crocheting into real jobs for women in Uganda and Peru.

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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

West meets East: Bridging local artisans with Western markets

Three businesses are finding success by blending fashion with social enterprise, providing artisans with the security of a safe job, dependable income, health care and education.

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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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Social Enterprise

The Middle East and North Africa’s youth wave: Addressing social issues through business

While the Middle East and North Africa struggle with the highest youth unemployment rates in the world, youth are also using their skills to create small businesses that address the social issues plaguing the region.

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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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Financial Inclusion

Econ 101: Three different ways to lift girls out of poverty

New projects that teach young women how to start a business, hold a bank account, and apply for financial aid can help to give them better futures out of the hallmarks of poverty -- poor health care, forced marriage, and early childbirth.

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Youth Skills

Young leaders from the Middle East tackle big challenges at home

Emerging leaders from across the Middle East are concocting plans to combat social and economic instability in their home countries.

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Youth Skills

The missing link: Transforming vocational skills into employment for young women

Faced with a widening gender gap in unemployment, international and nonprofit organizations are providing young women with marketable skills through vocational training programs. But when the girls' skills don't transform into jobs, many wonder - what’s the missing link?

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Social Enterprise

How better-trained farmers are slowing Brazil's deforestation

In Para, Brazil, farmers are turning a profit and the government is on track to slow deforestation thanks to local nonprofit Imazon, which got them to work together.