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Youth Skills

Largely Peaceful Kenyan Vote Bolstered by Youth, Technology

The U.S. Institute for Peace interviews a youth peace-activist in Kenya.

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Financial Inclusion

Fiji students are about to become the world's savviest savers

Fiji is leading the world in money management education, by exposing almost 200,000 students to savings and budgeting skills starting next month.

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Youth Skills

With new envoy, UN turns its eyes to youth issues

Ahmad Alhendawi is a newly appointed envoy, the first of his position, assigned to represent the most critical demographic of our time: youth.

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Youth Skills

Tweetable insights on entrepreneurship from Google's Cairo confab

The Giza sun elicited hot topics last Saturday as emerging entrepreneurs and experienced experts shared challenges and strategies for new business in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Value Chains

A new paradigm for food aid: Building new local food businesses

Crunch time! How a 1-year USDA grant reshaped a Bangladesh cereal market.

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Mobile Technology

Food or phone? Study finds some poor Kenyans choose the second

In Kenya, using one’s mobile phone is now often considered to be more of a priority than eating or paying utility bills.

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Financial Inclusion

Book Review: A firsthand look at Kiva entrepreneurs across the globe

In an ideal world, microfinance is the perfect mechanism for alleviating financial stress on new and small businesses. But how well does it work in real life?

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Youth Skills

Mobile Tech: a peaceful yet powerful weapon in Kenya

Mobile connections in the hands of youth may be the secret weapon for a strong democratic future in Kenya.

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Social Enterprise

How a Palestinian social gaming startup is taking off

Ayman Awartani is practically glowing as he tells the story of his startup, and with good reason.

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Social Enterprise

Pakistan patches up a startup culture tattered by disorder

With unrest stirring, Pakistan needs leaders to provide constructive answers to society’s challenges. Social entrepreneurs can do that, but they need mentors, says a recent report by the Economic Policy Group.

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Youth Skills

In the spotlight: Two female warriors of social innovation

Two leading ladies were recognized last week for using supreme social innovation to connect youth with technology.

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Financial Inclusion

A 'demographic window' of opportunity: Why youth need bank access now

The enormous economic potential of developing countries depends on their response to a global demographic shift--a response that'll fail without universal, affordable access to financial services.

A Mexican weaver stands behind his loom. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28703188@N02/4204678905/">Knoxville Museum of Art</a>

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Value Chains

As youth artisans struggle, NGOs beef up business training

A new generation of artisans in the Global South are getting entrepreneurial training with their craft skills.

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Youth Skills

Quotable: Tom Friedman on defusing a demographic bomb

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times gives a simultaneously ominous and intriguing description of a competition in economic development: India vs. China vs. Egypt.