-
Kenyan pay-as-you-go solar company wins global green energy award
Azuri Technologies – a company that gives Kenyan households pay-as-you-go access to solar power, is the winner of the 2013 Ashden Award, the world’s leading green energy prize.
- Categories
- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Aid for Trade — can it really reduce poverty?
Developing countries are increasingly opening up more to crucial trade routes, which connect them to world value chains.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Indian drug makers shifting R&D operations to South East Asia: Survey
AHMEDABAD: Red tapism is pushing India's Rs 1,00,000 crore pharmaceutical industry in peril as most of the pharma companies shifting research and development (R&D) operations and clinical trials to South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others, according to a just concluded survey by ASSOCHAM.
- Categories
- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
-
Changing the perspective: from disease control to healthy people
Never before has the health situation improved so fast across the world. At the same time, exposures to major health risks rise just as quickly and dramatically.
- Categories
- Health Care
-
Understanding the Protective Side of Dengue Virus
Infection with one strain of the dengue virus gives people protection against the other three strains for about two years, a new biostatistics study has found.
- Categories
- Health Care
-
Towards global food security
Early this year, a team of five MBA students from ESADE Business School, Spain, beat 56 other competitors from top-ranking business schools to win the regional finals of the fourth annual Hult prize in Dubai. The Hult prize is a student competition and crowd-sourcing platform for social enterprise, recently named one of the top five ideas changing the world by President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine.
- Categories
- Technology
-
How To Profit From Neglected Markets Around The Globe
Neglected markets are potential customers for a company’s existing products which managers and marketers routinely overlook or write off altogether, as these markets are either too small in terms of revenue potential or too costly in terms of the operation expenses required to tap to them. Or at least, so it was thought at the time the decision to write off these customers was made.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Tanzania: Luca Neghesti, a Serial Entrepreneur in Media, ICT and Logistics Industries
LUCA Neghesti is a serial entrepreneur with vast experience in the Media, ICT and Logistics industries in Tanzania.In 2006, he founded Bongo5 Media Group, the first digital media outfit in Tanzania targeting youth development through entertainment and social media engagement. In this interview, he spoke to ORTON KIISHWEKO on entrepreneurship, the youth and mothers.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa