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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way – China in Africa
Elizabeth Economy and Karen Monaghan write in the International Herald Tribune (The perils of Beijing’s Africa strategy) that China is quickly creating blowback in Africa despite its purportedly “hands off politics” approach.? You would be hard-pressed to design a more anti-BOP...
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Investor Forum Highlights Entrepreneurship in India
New Ventures India is wrapping up its annual Investor Forum, linking some of the country’s most outstanding small, sustainable enterprises with the capital and managerial training they need to grow and expand. ?Some initial highlights from the event include rousing discussions from Michael...
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Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
It is a familiar story: post-college volunteer (Peace Corps, etc.) returns from the developing world with a desire to help the community in which he or she has been staying.? The subsequent projects are also familiar ? they often involve selling local handicrafts to first-world markets, or...
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Remittances and Development – More to Say?
Let me share with you my state of mind after finishing a careful reading of the full World Bank report on Latin American remittances, Close to Home: The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America. On the one hand, it is a closely reasoned, and (as far as this non-economist can...
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