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Israeli Innovation Meets Rwandan Entrepreneurship: High-tech for Western markets is still the main focus of Israeli startups, but that’s slowly changing
Israel has the second-highest concentration of start-up companies after Silicon Valley, but most of this entrepreneurial energy has been focused on Western markets. This is slowly changing, with projects like kLab in Rwanda, writes Caylee Talpert, deputy director of the Pears Innovation for International Development Program at Tel Aviv University.
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Make Your Clothes Worth Wearing: How global brands are (finally) investing in factory workers
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a nonprofit that encourages social responsibility in business, has made the case that teaching economic and health skills to workers goes beyond a nice corporate social responsibility campaign: it actually improves a company’s bottom line. In 2007 created HERproject, a training program for garment factory workers that has caught on among big manufacturers.
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