World Bank Group: Financial Inclusion – Banking on Low-Income Households

11 years ago

Financial exclusion restricts economic opportunity and constrains poverty reduction. Yet today there are an estimated 2.5 billion adult people worldwide…

Jesse Lauriston Livermore: The Boy Plunger

11 years ago

Playing the stock market in order to make a bundle is not a pursuit deemed suitable for the faint of…

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): Sustainable Results in Challenging Environments

11 years ago

From building shelters in Haiti or helping to improve the school system in South Sudan, to buying medicines in Myanmar…

Michael Pettis: Markets Rationale and Volatility – The Case of China

11 years ago

Last month’s award of the Nobel Prize in Economics set off a great deal of chuckling because one of the…

Wang Meng: A Champ Tumbles and Falls on Her Way to the Top

11 years ago

We all crash into the barricades from time to time and Wang Meng, China’s most successful winter Olympian ever, did…

Harbingers of Climate Doom Gear Up Over Storm

11 years ago

Extreme weather events such as prolonged heat waves in Argentina, killer typhoons in the Pacific and violent storms lashing the…

Zurich Insurance Company: Insurance in Latin America – Economic Growth Brings New Opportunities

11 years ago

To continue its success story, Latin America will need to address a number of socio-economic challenges. Insurance has the potential…

Mario Draghi: ECB President Gearing Up for Eurozone Growth Spurt

11 years ago

Italian banker Mario Draghi entertains no doubts at all: Pessimist, sceptics, naysayers and assorted worrywarts severely underestimate the resolve extant…

IFC, ECOM Training Helps Women Farmers Boost Income, Productivity

11 years ago

Women make up 80 percent of coffee farmers in North Sumatra of Indonesia and 50 percent in Lam Dong of…

Peter Macnee: IFC Helps Virgin Mobile Find Untapped Demographic

11 years ago

For Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) Latin America is virgin territory. Barely 0.5% of installed network capacity is currently leased…