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Next year Adidas will launch a pilot program in Bangladesh aimed at producing €1 shoes for millions of people around the globe that can’t afford to buy Air Jordans. The program was inspired by Bangladesh’s Nobel prize winner...
My Turn: Environmental essay critic misses the vision By Saleem H. Ali • Thursday, November 19, 2009 As expected, my essay ("I believe: 'We need to be planetary in our vision,'" Oct. 18) urging us to reconsider the connections...
by Nian Yifeng, Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- German sporting goods giant Adidas has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus' Grameen to make low-cost shoes next year in Bangladesh...
Social entrepreneurship has caught on in Seattle in a big way. It takes two of the region's strengths -- its entrepreneurial streak and its humanitarian drive -- and forges interesting new hybrids. Think FareStart, VillageReach...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 DHAKA: Shares in Bangladesh’s largest mobile phone company Grameenphone soared more than 250 per cent on their first day of trading on Monday, propelling the benchmark stock index to a new record...
The laboratory course taking place in the basement of Princeton's Friend Center is not a traditional one -- in lieu of microscopes, there are discussions of microfinance, and students seek to create not chemical changes, but...
ONE of the great acts of disservice by economists has been the depersonalisation of economic growth and development. From the classical school, who regarded land to be the most important factor, to the neoclassical, who gave...
Holly Mosher is an award-winning filmmaker dedicated to bringing socially conscious films to the public. Her latest documentary, Bonsai: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus , focuses on the work of Nobel Prize winner Yunus...
Ambon, Maluku (ANTARA News) - A number of foreign consul generals will take part in the commemoration of World Peace Day to be held here on November 25, 2009. "Foreign consuls, prominent world peace figures, ASEAN officials,...
October's comment of the month comes from James in Portland, Oregon. James commented on our story Poverty Isn't Always Ugly . He reminds us that poverty rears its ugly head in many forms — not just monetarily. For his efforts,...
