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

11 years ago

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

World Bank Reports on Affordable Housing in Egypt

11 years ago

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

Grant Thornton: Islamic Finance – What’s In It For Me?

11 years ago

Grant Thornton United Arab Emirates (UAE) Audit Partner, Khurram Bhatti talks about the key aspects related to Islamic Finance. There…

A Grateful World Mourns Nelson Mandela

11 years ago

1918 - 2013 On the evening of Thursday December 5th a clearly shaken President Jacob Zuma announced to South Africa…

Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel: Saudi Princess at Forefront of Women´s Lib – “We Want Change”

11 years ago

It is quite difficult to introduce Ameerah Al-Taweel without mentioning the fact that she is the wife of Saudi Prince…

DEG: Germany Eyes Future Markets Beyond the BRICS

11 years ago

In the light of weak economic activity, growth forecasts for the major emerging nations in 2013 and 2014 are being…

Tobias Preis: Beating the Stock Market with Google’s Big Data

11 years ago

Google your way to riches: It can be done and Tobias Preis has proved it. Search query data on publically…

Perry Chen: Unleashing the Power of Collective Funding, Getting Bright Ideas to Fruition

11 years ago

In the spring of 1885, publisher Joseph Pulitzer launched a fundraising campaign in his newspaper New York World to raise…

Dame Zaha Mohammed Hadid: Never an Understatement – Design Rooted in Nature

11 years ago

The work of Dame Zaha Mohammed Hadid, one of today’s most accomplished and celebrated architects, has always been ambitious. To…

Deficits Matter, but Not the Way You Might Think

11 years ago

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