Tag: global development
Turning toilets into profit
Business students are hoping to take advantage of the "sanitation value chain" to turn toilets into money making machines....
Land grab in Africa by global hedge funds, American universities
Global hedge funds are buying up huge tracts of land in Africa, hoping to make money off the commodity and food trade, and prominent US universities are taking part....
Bitcoins and the future of the monetary system
Digital Money or bitcoins could be changing the way that people do business. ...
Hosni Mubarak will be put on trial in Egypt
Reports are appearing that Hosni Mubarak will be tried for the deaths of protesters....
Protests in Spain: Not quite the Spanish Arab Spring
Spain's youth is rising up in protest over unemployment. But the protests are different from those in Cairo and around the Arab world. ...
Libyan rebels learn the media
In the fight against Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan rebels are trying hard to use the media as a weapon. The task is proving difficult....
South Sudan's reliance on NGOs
South Sudan is poised to become Africa’s newest nation, but NGOs will still provide basic services to almost 90 percent of the country....
Egypt's Coptic Christians want a voice
After the protests in Tahrir Square, Egypt's Coptic Christians want a more equal voice in the new Egyptian government, too. ...
Jordan's protests for reform
Anti-government activists and supporters of Jordan's King Abdullah are both calling for reform in Jordan....
Inside an illegal bushmeat bazaar
In Ecuador's Pompeya market, bushmeat hunters sell animals caught in the rainforest, and that has ecologists worried....
