Topic: Economic Development

Senegal's Plan to Fight Climate Change: A "Great Green Wall"

What the developing world needs to fight climate change is good governance.READ MORE›

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Networks in the Developing World

Lane Smith coordinates the USAID's Leland Initiative, an effort to extend full Internet connectivity to more than 20 African countries in order to promote sustainable development. Rahul Tongia is a research engineer of engineering ...READ MORE›

Life cycle of Outsourcing: A Conceptual study

This blog aims at looking at outsourcing from the perspective of its life cycle. An attempt to understand the birth and growth of this phenomenon called outsourcing. To start off, I would quote from wikipedia which has this to say ...READ MORE›

Shallow Pockets

Continuing the microlending work pioneered by Muhammad Yunus Bangladeshi microlending institution the Grameen Bank, grassroots financiers such as Indonesian Ishak Fatoni indicate that microlending can be macro-profitable. But don't ...READ MORE›

ACCION, the World's Most Effective Non-Profit Microfinance, Thrives on Constant Innovation

"The more successful a breakthrough is, the sooner it becomes obsolete and therefore one must move to the next stage," says the former CEO.READ MORE›

India - The Super Job Creator

A recent study shows that India is by far the highest new jobs creator in the world. It may be celebration time for Indians, but is this also the right time to reflect on aspects that could bring the party crashing down? Well, ...READ MORE›

The SOccket: A Soccer Ball to Replace Kerosene Lamps

It sounds strange. How can soccer balls possibly eliminate the need for fume-filled kerosene lamps in developing countries? With the sOccket--a soccer ball developed by a group of Harvard students. The ball produces and stores ...READ MORE›

Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group

When this league of extraordinary gentlepeople convened in Washington last spring, they were met -- as is usual for world summits now -- with a small but creative resistance. "There were about 1,500 of us," recalls Lacy MacAuley of ...READ MORE›

Al Gore: Oil "Junkie" America Needs Third World Help

The former Vice President, clean-shaven in a dark suit and black cowboy boots, pauses. "Junkies find veins in their toes, when the veins in their arms and legs collapse," he says to Charlie Rose. The audience suffers an ...READ MORE›

A Disease-Fighting UN Backed by Big Pharma

A representative of big pharma calls for a UN-like compact to fight antibiotic resistance diseases in the developing world.READ MORE›

Want to Build the World Bank's New App? Here's How

The World Bank is embracing digital openness in a big way: It's just revamped its APIs for public access to its treasure trove of financial data. The aim is to make data available to help developing countries. READ MORE›

Middle East Gets an Infrastructure Boost From the World Bank

The World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank have partnered up to address emerging markets left out of the oil boom.READ MORE›

How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard

Not long ago, economist Noreena Hertz lived at the lefty margins of her field. But her (widely ignored) prediction of the credit crisis and her call for a more evolved form of capitalism have suddenly put her at the center of the universe.READ MORE›

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world? A beautifully illustrated video shows the causes.READ MORE›

The Global Trade

Discussion of Global Capital Markets and Emerging Market opportunities as a result of the G20 summitREAD MORE›

David Green - Fast 50 2003

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One Laptop Per Child: Failure is not an Option

The news that the XO Laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation is launching a buy-one-get-one sale to encourage first world consumers to help fund laptops for children in developing countries has spawned an eager chorus ...READ MORE›

Stef Wertheimer - Fast 50 2003

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The Ecological Credit Crunch

Banks and the automobile industry have had the luxury of government bailouts, but what about Mother Nature? Who should be responsible for paying off the huge ecological debt that has accumulated over years of use and abuse of the world’s natural resources? The idea of an ecological credit crunch happening may seem far-fetched, but the truth is we are using up limited resources that are fast running out. We may not have much longer before an ecological credit crisis occurs.READ MORE›

Is Haiti a Laboratory for New Urbanists? What the Country Really Needs Is Old Urbanism

Last Wednesday, Haitian president René Préval asked the international aid community for $3.8 billion to rebuild his shattered country after January’s devastating earthquake. In what amounted to a fund-raiser at the United ...READ MORE›

Telemedicine Gets a Boost From Novartis and the Earth Institute

The Bonsaaso Millennium Village to be crowned with telemedicine upgrades.READ MORE›

Credit For All

For Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, access to credit is a human right. Providing credit to the world’s poor, Yunus believes, clashes with the profit-maximizing goal of conventional ...READ MORE›

Microcredit Entrepreneur Wins Nobel Peace Prize

A simple business plan based on the concept of microcredit just won Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus was awarded the prize today for the bank he founded, the Grameen Bank, which provides average loans ...READ MORE›

Habitat for Humanity Announces New MicroBuild Microfinance Fund

Microfinance just got sexier.READ MORE›

John Hatch - Fast 50 2003

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