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  • Business Model Innovation- New Opportunities

    What do ITMG, Sankalp and Suschama have in common? They are all new business venture ideas focused at bringing the best if consulting and supply chain optimisation to small and medium enterprises that have been created by students while still in college. The enterprising students of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) in Mumbai, supported by a visionary Professor, Dr T Prasad at the institute, have come up with this unique concept of ?Student Companies (SCs)?, whi...

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    Hindustan Times (link opens in a new window)
  • Turning Wastes Into Bottomline

    How Indian Industry is managing quality? ? In the past two articles, I highlighted examples of innovations in two organisations ? one, a large business house, and the other, a small company innovating for the bottom of the pyramid. ? In this article, the focus is on innovation for sustainable development by a manufacturing company ? Brakes India Ltd -- Foundry Division (BI Foundry). With the world becoming evermore environmentally conscious and technologies having to conform ...

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    Business Standard (link opens in a new window)
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  • A Farewell to Alms

    When celebrities such as Angelina Jolie or Bono highlight human tragedy to show that something can be done to alleviate it, the heart melts and the purse strings loosen. But the stars, alas, aren’t up on the economic literature. Research is increasingly questioning the benefits of foreign aid. For a long time, persistent underdevelopment in aid-receiving countries fostered doubts about whether the do-good impulse was doing permanent good. Validation seemed to arrive with two World...

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    Wall Street Journal (link opens in a new window)
  • Money Sent Home Vital for Survival

    At least three or four times a year, Saher sends a portion of her salary home. The money helps her parents buy necessities, and even creates a bit of savings in a place where the few jobs that still exist often don’t pay for months, if at all. Saher al-Jamil tries to call home, but once again the lines are dead. She isn’t worried because she is used to that by now. Reaching her parents in Gaza is no easy task, what with electricity being so unpredictable there. Everything is u...

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    The Toronto Star (link opens in a new window)
  • No Straight Road to Poverty Eradication

    A major plank in President Museveni’s kisanja project is the eradication of poverty. If there is anything he has expended quantities of energy talking about, it is the imperative to lift the Uganda’s impoverished out of poverty. And he has never been short of quick solutions. Those with long memories recall the much-vaunted entandikwa scheme, for which he even appointed Sisye Kiryapawo minister in charge. For reasons best known to him, and his policy advisors, the President be...

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    Calibre Macro*World (link opens in a new window)
  • Poor Nations Lose

    Huge profits made by London-based brokers who arrange emissions-cutting projects in developing countries contrast with little benefit for the world’s poorest nations, company and United Nations data shows. The Kyoto Protocol on global warming allows rich countries to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by paying poor nations to cut emissions on their behalf, using the so-called clean development mechanism (CDM). But evidence is emerging that while brokers stand to mak...

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    The Windsor Star (link opens in a new window)
  • CARE Turns Down Federal Funds for Food Aid

    CARE, one of the world’s biggest charities, is walking away from some $45 million a year in federal financing, saying American food aid is not only plagued with inefficiencies, but also may hurt some of the very poor people it aims to help. CARE’s decision is focused on the practice of selling tons of often heavily subsidized American farm products in African countries that in some cases, it says, compete with the crops of struggling local farmers. The charity says ...

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    New York Times (link opens in a new window)
  • ?Qui?n es ’Sam’ Pitroda?

    En M?xico muy pocos conocen a Satyanarayan Gangarm (Sam) Pitroda. Aqu? no fijamos nuestra atenci?n en lo que ?l hace: innovar, crear nuevas empresas, utilizar la tecnolog?a para beneficio de los pobres y ayudar a su pa?s a entrar de lleno a la econom?a del conocimiento. Aqu? estamos demasiado concentrados en las denominadas reformas estructurales o en evitar que se hagan esas reformas; en seguir insistiendo a favor del Consenso de Was-hington o en rechazarlo. Cuando m?s, hacemos referencias ret?...

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    El Universal (link opens in a new window)
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