This week was dedicated to the entrepreneur’s survey: mailing and calling and interviewing and visiting entrepreneurs in the food-processing sector. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, these entrepreneurs are limited in number, which makes it hard to find enough to conduct a pretty comprehensive picture. On the other hand, it makes it easy to identify them - the…

A good friend of ours runs a successful business in India and East Africa selling solar lanterns and solar home systems.  His business is taking off, and he's always on the lookout for the right product to push through his quickly expanding distribution network.  As it turns out, there are some novel solar home system technologies in Israel that are a perfect fit, he'd just never thought to look there before.

Private-sector led development is a new industry, and as it grows,…

“I can sell you 14 235 pineapples”, that’s what a farmer said to Claudio Scotto, CEO of Africa Felix Juice. 14 235 pineapples - quite an impressive figure at first glance. If you put it into the context of Claudio Scotto, you will end up with a different interpretation: A lot of small scale farmers have no idea…

Wednesday, 17^th April 2013, 18:00 local time: Arrival at the airport in Freetown. Add to it 5 more hours for taxi, waiting, the slowest ferry ride I have seen in my life and another taxi, that’s the time I arrived in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone. But even though…

Photo: Providence Granola Project.  Providence Granola provides refugees with employment and job training.

Every business institution and businessman can play a great positive role to develop a country. Many business institutions and businessmen have been working to develop their countries for a long time, side by side doing their profitable business. If every businessman would come forwards to do some works to develop…

This post originally appeared on the African Medical & Research Foundation Canada's blog. It is reproduced here with permission.

At the February 2013 AMREF Coffeehouse Speaker Series on global development, Dr Shari Eli and Dr Nicholas Li from the University of Toronto shared their…

Pearson is recruiting for an International Affairs Manager, to be based in either New York or London.

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On September 22 for three days, I attended the Social Good Summit (SGS) sponsored by Mashable, United Nations Foundation, 92Y, Ericsson, UNDP, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  The global conversation was truly global in every sense.  All the panels were live streamed throughout the world, and translated in several  languages as you can see in this picture below.…

“The service of India means, the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and…

The new issue - The health of nations - looks at the intersection of industry and health.

In terms of international development, it is often taken for granted that wealth inevitably leads to health, and that therefore only the countries with wealthier economies will be able to foster the conditions for a healthier population.…

Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence in Sustainable Development Award

"As part of Frost & Sullivan's research and market intelligence work, we seek to identify industry Best Practices and…

By Vivienne Benson (this post was originally published on globalisationanddevelopment.com)

With just over a month until world leaders will join thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, and NGOs in Rio for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the relationship between climate policy and the private sector is a…

H.E.M. Jakaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, just reaffirmed his decision to chair ACBF Private Sector Consultation…

Oxford HR is helping the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, an independent private foundation, to recruit a new Executive Director, Textile Development Unit (based in Dar Es Salam). 

Gatsby’s Africa programmes are focused on catalyzing the growth and competitiveness of key sectors in East Africa that impact large numbers of people. Gatsby has a business-like culture based on sound analysis of markets and where the Trust plays a proactive role in designing, shaping and…

Oxford HR is helping the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, an independent private foundation, to recruit a new Africa Programme Manager, based in London, as part of their Africa team. Gatsby’s Africa programmes are focused on catalyzing the growth and competitiveness of key sectors in East Africa that impact large numbers of people. Gatsby has a business-like culture based on sound analysis of markets and where the Trust plays a proactive…

Everyone knows that without infrastructure development, no country can alleviate poverty; also, business, export-import and every kind of government and non-government works can’t go in the smooth way. The Government of developing and under developed…