Economics & Finance

The Millennium Promise, which runs some 80 villages in sub-Saharan Africa, aims to help communities move towards sustainable...

Think of Africa and you’re likely to conjure up images of warfare, drought and corruption. But Ruurd Brouwer, Africa Director...

For Marathon Oil Corporation, its project to tackle malaria on an island off Equatorial Guinea is paying off. It reckons that...

African farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are taking part in a social entrepreneurship project to cultivate...

In the US, extravagance is a normal way of life. In China, it is a sin. Such contrasting consumer psyche between the two...

Creativity is underrated – at least that is what Fredrik Haren, author of The Idea Book, believes. "We want to be thought of as...

The World Bank is aiming to double its lending to emerging economies that are most vulnerable from the fallout of the global...

Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo and Ning are getting a larger than usual following these...

In the fallout of the global financial meltdown, it’s difficult to think of a positive side to the economic crisis. But it...

Governments around the world have not done enough to address the damaging effects of the global financial crisis triggered by...