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Changing lives, a hen at a time
Helping hand: Three years ago, four campus students started a revolutionary project that has begun to alleviate poverty in rural areasnyan communities of giving visitors a hen.
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From base of social pyramid, only way is up
Firms serving Africa's poorest paving way for mutual growth
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty
Proof that giving cash to poor people, no strings attached, is an amazingly powerful tool for boosting incomes and promoting development.
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The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty
Poverty is, fundamentally, a lack of money. So doesn’t it make sense that simply delivering cash to poor people can be an effective strategy for alleviating it?
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Instilling soft skills in chauffeurs
In the travel industry, the bottom of the pyramid is the driver.” Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO, GlobalTHEN.
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The hottest frontier
Strategies for putting money to work in a fast-growing continent.
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How to Plan when you don’t know what is going to happen? Redesigning aid for complex systems
They’re funny things, speaker tours. On the face of it, you go from venue to venue, churning out the same presentation – more wonk-n-roll than rock-n-roll. But you are also testing your arguments, adding slides where there are holes, deleting ones that don’t work.
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Venture Capital to invest US$20m this year
The Venture Capital Trust Fund will invest US$20million in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in different sectors of the economy this year, building on a portfolio of investments currently valued at close to US$60million.
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