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Liberia’s Miracle Oil Brings Farmers Only Empty Promises
“We embraced the company because we wanted development,” he says, remembering the promises of schools and clinics if local people gave up land. “We were expecting education for our children, employment, healthcare.”
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$2.5 Million Initiative to Support Clean Energy-Based Livelihood Solutions in Tamil Nadu
The Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Villgro Innovation Foundation will support at least five enterprises to undertake large-scale commercial deployments.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Press Release: Tony Elumelu Foundation Announces Final 2,100 African Entrepreneurs for the Inaugural TEF-UNDP Entrepreneurship Programme
The Programme targets small business owners in rural communities across the 7 Sahel countries of Africa – Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon.
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Viewpoint: To Achieve the SDGs in a Warming Climate We Will Have to Change How We Produce Our Food
Although we are seeing the emergence of underground farms and giant high-tech, temperature-controlled greenhouses, the vast bulk of the world’s food production is grown under the sun and therefore exposed not just to warming temperatures but also the disease, pests, floods and drought that those warming temperatures can cause.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Reporters Pick Their Favorite Global Stories Of The Decade
Our global health and development blog, Goats and Soda, did not start until 2014, but many of our contributors have been on their global beats for the full decade. We asked them to pick one story from the 2010s that was a personal favorite – and that captured a pivotal moment in global health and development.
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- Health Care
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The Results of Liberia’s Experiment to Outsource Education Are In
The Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL), now called the Liberian Education Advancement Partnership (LEAP), handed the operation of 93 public schools to a group of eight private organizations, including a mix of both for-profit companies and non-profit charities, as well as local and international organizations.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BRAC Founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Passes Away
"We will honour his legacy with the same resilience, dignity and humility that he has instilled in us."
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Young Chadians Seek to Solve Blackouts, Joblessness With Social Businesses
In Chad, where there is almost little to no local business, social entrepreneurs are taking on tasks such as lighting in a country where business laws are tough, investment scarce and entrepreneurship an idea that many don’t quite understand yet.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa