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Pakistan: USAID to Finance Gov’t for Livestock Uplift

KARACHI - The Sindh government has planned to set up Sindh Dairy and Meat Development Company and to initiate master plan study on livestock meat and dairy development under JICA grant during current fiscal year. This was informed at Provincial Development Working Party meeting held under the chairmanship of Additional Chief ...

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The Nation (link opens in a new window)

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South Asia

A Fresh Start: Asian Villages Carve Out a New Life

The village of Tmatboey in the northern plains of Cambodia seemed to have little going for it. It lacked clean water; there were no real roads. The people toiled mostly at subsistence farming, barely scraping by. The villagers didn’t realize they had a valuable asset -- hiding in plain sight, so to speak: a tourist attraction that a niche group of international travelers would happily pay to see, even if it meant a stay in basic accommodations. And now they’re making money...

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Wall Street Journal (link opens in a new window)

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Asia Pacific

Rockefeller Foundation’s Push Toward Design and Innovation

Recently, I wrote a story about the Aspen Design Summit, a small event at which big name designers and philanthropists got together to talk about ways to apply the techniques of design thinking to social problems such as poverty, hunger or healthcar...

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Business Week (link opens in a new window)

Nokia’s Handset Chief Targets 500m Handsets This Year With Focus on India

It comes as no surprise that Nokia’s new handset c...

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Rethink Wireless (link opens in a new window)

FT: The Biggest Idea Might Be Learning to Think Small

I spend my life sitting in boardrooms across from chief executives asking me to help them find that mythical beast, "the bi...

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Financial Times (link opens in a new window)

Better Vision for the World, on a Budget

EGHEL, the Netherlands — With AIDS , ...

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New York Times (link opens in a new window)

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Europe & Eurasia

Cash Alone Won?t Make Microfinance Work

NAIROBI/TRANSMARA, Kenya – Two years ago, fed up with a husband who drank too much and provided too little, Julie Amunga, who lives in the sprawling Mathare slum in the capital, Nairobi, decided to start a business that would enable her to support her family. “My friends and I all had husbands who drank too much and beat us at home and yet they were not providing anything for the home,” she told IRIN/PlusNews. “We would sleep with other men secretly to provide fo...

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PlusNews East Africa (link opens in a new window)

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzania: New Hope as Chicken Project Takes Off

In the a quiet and laid-back Coastal Region, a pioneering new project involving poultry farming is giving ordinary people a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. Research Into Use (RIU) is a programme based in Dar es Salaam which aims at promoting innovations and utilisation of new knowledge and research output, to eradicate poverty. RIU has so far enabled a community in the Rufiji District to rear a hundreds of chicks each with the intent...

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The Citizen (link opens in a new window)

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Sub-Saharan Africa