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  • How to recapitalise banks
    February 19, 2009

    The current approach to solving the banking crisis is to put more government money into banks. The problem with this approach...

  • Global outlook: big spenders and penny-pinchers
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    In the US, extravagance is a normal way of life. In China, it is a sin. Such contrasting consumer psyche between the two...

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

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    Eight years ago television was banned in Afghanistan and its single national radio station was Taliban-run.

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    If social entrepreneurs in India focus on causes when mapping out challenges, rather than just fixing the symptoms, half the...

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

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

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    January 26, 2009

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

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

  • World Bank to double lending to emerging economies in wake of crisis
    December 31, 2008

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

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