Topic: Malawi

The Sound of Three Hands Clapping

Here's the deal. Make your way to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, by Tuesday at 2.15 p.m. By Friday, in a nearby village, you must turn two dilapidated buildings into teachers' housing and build a new community resource centre. The ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Skip Rudolf

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Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 4

Subscribe to Appfrica by Email Forbes Calls Africa The ‘Last Investment Frontier’ “In 1989, there were just five sub-Saharan stock exchanges; now there are 16." - Forbes, John Christy Africa Thriving ...READ»

Cheap, Plastic Solar LEDs Another Bright Idea for Rural Villages

Access to on-demand lighting is a given for many of us, but some developing countries don't have the proper electrical grid set up to allow even a basic light bulb to turn on. Solar power is a popular way to address this problem, a ...READ»

Which Poverty-Fighting Policies Work? J-PAL Has the Answer

A global league of economists called J-PAL is deploying its experimental methods and one all-powerful asset -- data -- to explain human behavior, change how we help the poor, and try to save the world.READ»

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Intel's Amazon Ambitions

How a Brazilian town best known for its Festival of the Ox became a marketing tool for the world's biggest semiconductor company.READ»

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China Saps Mozambique of Timber Resources

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's poorest. Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along ...READ»