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The apparatus which comes as a set comprising an aluminium funnel, a tripod stand, a pot and safety device against reflection of sun rays, has been tested with different kinds of raw foods which were successfully cooked into edible meals. This stove can prepare all manner of food including beans, yam, infact all staple foods consumed in Nigeria can be cooked with this appliance, says Sogunro, adding you can even make eba with it if the required amount of garri and normal quanti...
Solar Stove to the RescueNews
For years credit cards have failed to penetrate developing nations the way they have impacted the rest of the world. This is down to the fact that many merchants and traders in these countries do not accept card payments, only cash or cheques. Conventional card payment processing terminals are expensive and most African merchants simply cannot afford them. However, with the rapid growth of wireless technologies new options to bring electronic transaction authorisation to non-traditional location...
Cheaper mobile phone-based POS could make African credit card sales easier, by Mapara SyedBlog Post
When asked why investment in clean tech (such as solar energy, water purification systems and alternative automotive fuels) is on the upswing, Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists don’t hold back. In today’s New York Times, the answer is generally the same: profit. Furthermore, some leading...
Silicon Valley VC Firms Tap Energy, Water as World’s “Largest Markets”News
Summary: Increasing aid and market access for poor countries makes sense but will not do that much good. Wealthy nations should also push other measures that could be far more rewarding, such as giving the poor more control over economic policy, financing new development-friendly technologies, and opening labor markets. Getting Development Right The year 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summ...
How to Help Poor Countries, by Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind SubramanianNews
Substantial support for SMEs came this week in the form of a Nedbank SME Development Project, which was launched on Thursday. Many SMEs disappear from the scene mainly due to the shortage of bookkeeping skills, said the Minister of Trade and Industry, Immanuel Ngatjizeko, in his keynote address to mark the project’s official launch. Nedbank Namibia’s Social Investment Fund will make available N$350 000 for SME development over a three-year period. The p...
Social Fund Invest in SME Capacity ProjectNews
Business has a central role to play in eradicating poverty in Africa, alongside debt relief and greater aid flows, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday. Speaking in Paris at a seminar on corporate responsibility in the developing world, Annan said the main responsibilty for meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by a 2015 deadline still rests with governments. But business has a centrol role to play, he sai...
UN chief highlights ’central role’ of business in developmentNews
??We propose to collect data from 25 Agromet centres, under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) present across the country and 83 centres of NCMRWF and link them to the Virtual Academy for Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT) of ICRISAT, krishi channels and Crop Weather Watch group. The first pilot project is expected to come up soon at Mehboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh state, ?? Dr Ramakrishna said. The information needs of the farmer include some general information like w...
IT-based agri information system, by MV MahalakshmiNews
The financial industry joined the United Nations today to discuss how the growing microfinance sector can benefit from the expertise of Wall Street. As part of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit, Wall Street professionals focused on their role-making financial services available to the vast numbers of poor and low-income people around the world who currently need them. In her opening remarks, Nane Annan, wife of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told attendees about he...
Wall Street, UN experts mark International Year of Microcredit
