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Calling Bad Business Good - 12-12-2006
Last month the World Bank issued a report entitled "Doing Business 2007: How to Reform", which ranks 175 countries in terms of the "ease of doing business" within their borders. The report ranks favourably those countries that lack minimum wages, fail to r...
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Patents vs. Patients - Who's rights come first? - 12-12-2006
Vital medicines are priced out of the reach of poor people. This is in violation of the promises made five years ago by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to make life-saving medicines available and affordable to all. As a result, millions of poor people i...
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Fighting urban poverty: which participatory approaches? - 06-12-2006
This document is a result of a discussion held during a side event of the third annual World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada, June 2005. Due to the rapid urbanisation of poverty, the focus was on issues relating to approaches, methodologies, tools and tec...
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The Microfinance Moment - 04-12-2006
Over the last three decades, the popularity of microfinance has steadily increased. And now, with Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank winning the Nobel Peace Prize, microfinance has hit the front page. Many in the West tout microfinance as a pivotal innovation...
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