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Global Ideas News Brief: Sanitation + Ag entrepreneurs

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Youth Skills

Goal! Supporting youth through soccer

Behind the glamor of the World Cup lies a simple game that youth advocates believe can motivate young people around the globe to change their lives for the better.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Mobile tech + India

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Scalability + Iraq

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Youth Skills

2014 World Cup by the numbers

Soccer-loving Brazilians have become the loudest protesters against their country's massive spending in preparation for the World Cup. They argue the billions should have been better spent. Let's look at the numbers.

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Youth Skills

World Bank on Youth Employment in Africa

African youth represent potential for the continent, but innovation is needed to employ the growing cohort.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Partnerships + Sexual violence

Solving Haiti's plastic problem, increasing the yields of smallholder farmers and making room for the private sector in the Sustainable Development Goals. Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Financial Inclusion

Infographic: If the world were 100 people...

Imagine a world of only 100 people. Applying today’s demographics, nearly half of those people would live on less than $2 per day.

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GLOBAL IDEAS NEWS BRIEF: JOBS REMAIN SCARCE + RURAL MARKETS GROW

A weekly roundup of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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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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Global Ideas News Brief: Girls education + Affordable solar

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Youth Skills

Quotable: Hillary Clinton on including women and girls in the global economy

"No country can truly thrive by denying the contributions of half its people…(W)e have evidence that when women and girls participate throughout the economy, productivity and growth go up for everyone…

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Global Ideas News Brief: Twisting aid in Somalia + NextGen investors

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Entrepreneurs vs. Multinationals

Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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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.