Meet Abdullah Hamza, the young social entrepreneur, doing amazing work in the Northern Region of Ghana. Hamza has a business model he calls ‘greening commodities’, which is contributing to the fight against climate change.
“Young people like me who read agriculture related courses in schools do not necessarily need to...
Before the pandemic, medical tourism was a major growth area
Dubai was a world leader among emerging market destinations
Covid-19 travel bans and lockdowns seriously dented growth
Increased emphasis on safety has enabled a gradual re-opening
Prior to the outbreak of coronavirus, medical tourism was a significant growth industry...
In 1832, the great cholera pandemic hit Paris. In just a few months, the disease killed 20,000 of the city’s 650,000 population. Most fatalities occurred in the heart of the city, where many poor workers lived in squalid conditions, drawn to Paris by the Industrial Revolution.
The spread of the...
Amazon announced Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO almost 27 years after he founded the company to sell books to customers over dial-up modems.
Amazon wasn’t the first bookstore to sell online, but it wanted to be “Earth’s biggest.” When it first launched, a bell would ring in the...
I don’t know whether US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and their foreign-policy advisers have read Robert Axelrod’s classic book on international relations, The Evolution of Cooperation. But they should heed Axelrod’s central insight about how countries can benefit from cooperation and punish cheating.
Through countless simulations, Axelrod...
Access to finance continues to be a major hinderance to the growth of small businesses. This challenge has been attributed to small businesses inability to provide collateral to secure funding, inability to demonstrate adequate traction, inadequate knowledge and experience as well as lack of adequate information on the operations...
While an earlier article talked about value chain financing (VCF), the key question of relevance is what can be done in a practical sense to re-engineer financing of agriculture through VCF, especially in the Covid-19 era?
For this, financial inclusion of agriculture through VCF should not be merely viewed as...
The Media as a Social Force for Change
The media plays a critical role in shaping and directing society toward a national conscience of developmental goals, based on how it selects and cuts through a nation’s developmental agenda by making some issues more salient than others. Through the media’s selection...
‘The 100 Club’ – a content initiative of Cable News Network (CNN) takes a look at global and iconic brands that have survived and thrived for more than 100 years in business. So far, the production has covered some companies/brands that have survived the 100-year mark since their formation...