Sustainability

IFC, ECOM Training Helps Women Farmers Boost Income, Productivity

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

11 years ago

Emmanuel Nnadozie, ACBF: Africa – BRICS Partnership Is Growing Rapidly

Emerging trends show that recently the BRICS group has become a major force in the global economic arena. The OECD…

11 years ago

World Bank Group: Spurring Job Growth in the Western Balkans – Research and Innovation

By Paulo Correa and Christopher Colford Promoting economic growth and job creation requires innovative industries that can make imaginative use of business…

11 years ago

IFC Champions Water Efficiency in China’s Textile Industry

China’s vast textile industry is a boon to the country’s economy, but consumes high volumes of water. This is a…

11 years ago

Ross Jackson: The EU as a Green Powerhouse – A Green Opportunity

The recent revelations regarding our American allies’ spying on Angela Merkel and other leading EU politicians, raises – once again…

11 years ago

Wangari Maathai: Attaining Peace that Endures, One Tree at a Time

A young Kenyan girl named Wangari Maathai was sent by her mother to fetch some fresh water. As she reached…

11 years ago

World Bank Reports on Affordable Housing in Egypt

Hamada Mohamed, a taxi driver, is married with a 3 -year-old boy, and expecting a new baby in the coming…

11 years ago

Deficits Matter, but Not the Way You Might Think

By Bob Veres. This originally appeared on Advisor Perspectives. Congress is coming off of a bruising debate over the deficit ceiling…

11 years ago

UN Concern over Job Creation for Youth in Least developed Nations

There should be a greater emphasis on job creation in the world’s 49 poorest nations, where the number of young…

11 years ago

USAID: Science and Engineering Diaspora Networks – Communities Mobilizing to Solve Global Development Challenges

In a research lab at the University of Buffalo (UB), New York, scientist Sarbajit Banerjee and his colleagues have honed…

11 years ago