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Goizueta MBAs Help Fix the Bolivian Recycling Business
On Aug. 3, seven MBA students from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School will travel to Bolivia as part of a project designed to put their skills to work solving a waste problem in the nation’s capital in Santa Cruz. The students will help determine the feasibility of building a more efficient recycling plant and creating jobs in the process.
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Entrepreneurship a way out of poverty in Guatemala
Javier Villatoro grew up without a mom and dad in Guatemala City. He dropped out of school in his late teens to learn to cut Guatemalan jade and other precious stones and to work silver with Argentinean jewelers.He used his earnings to buy drugs, alcohol and snuff. He struggled with thoughts of suicide.
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Brazil’s social entrepreneurs are making the most of safer favela conditions
On a five-week journey exploring all five regions of Brazil, social enterprise specialist Richard Brownsdon investigates what opportunities are available for social entrepreneurs in the fifth largest country in the world.
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How Brazil can win back investors
Investors will be waiting on the sidelines until they see that Brasilia is making a true and concerted effort to stamp out corruption and govern in a way fitting for the world's seventh-largest economy.
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Telling a very happy story: enterprise from Brazil’s point of view
Social enterprise is becoming a part of the norm in Brazil, a valid option for starting or growing a business.
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Studies on Mexican microlender shed light on profit, poverty
Mexico's microfinancing bank Compartamos, accused by activists of exploiting poor borrowers with exorbitant interest rates, has generally helped people but could cut the interest it charges without hurting its bottom line, a pair of studies has found.
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Inclusive economic growth and Brazil’s protests
Brazil’s weeklong protests, which have brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets across the country, have scored their first victory: Officials in the major cities of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro have agreed to rescind the 20 cent bus fare hike that sparked the protests in the first place. But this conciliatory move, far from placating the crowds, seems to have energized their demands.
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Doctors reap in billions as Cuba’s top export
Cuba is out to boost its top export, an ever-more critical pillar of its economy.
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- public health