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…

Affordable Housing - An opportunity to create employment

The backlog for Affordable Housing in South Africa are in the millions. The main culprit in increased cost and affordability is "skilled labour*. The lack of artisans in the construction trade continuously escalates due to the fact that there are no new "apprentices" enrolling. Bricklayers and plasterers are only two of the key artisans that effect the cost of building…

Trade Advance Ltd and Bees for Development are delighted to announce an innovative partnership to develop beekeeping livelihoods in one of the poorest parts of Ethiopia. The initial step will be to establish an Apiculture Centre of Excellence, the first of its kind, in the…

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…

By Hubert Schmitz

This blog post was originally posted on the Globalisation and Development Blog on 9 March 2012.

Last week we started a new IDS seminar series on Business and Climate Policy. The reason for bringing business into the climate change debate is clear. For the green transformation to happen it…

Photo: World Bank / Jonathan Ernst. Truck mechanics at the port in Tema, Ghana

Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank. Marsh, Botswana.

It is a great honour to be selected as member of the week. Thank you.

I thought I'd celebrate by posting my fiftieth blog post on this site and reflect on how this network has helped me and the ColaLife supporters make the progress we have made.

For those of you who read the title and thought I meant my fiftieth birthday, bless you,…

Photo: The Coca-Cola Company

By Dr Susan Mboya, Group Director, Eurasia Africa Women’s Economic Empowerment, The Coca-Cola Company

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Bringing Markets Closer to Farmers:

Multi Commodity Exchange of India’s Gramin Suvidha Kendra Initiative

Thursday, September 29, 2011 

9:00 am NY/2:00 pm London/3:00 pm Johannesburg/6:30 pm New Delhi…

January 2011 marks the fifth month of the United Nations International Year of Youth. The year commenced on August 12 2010, and represents an effort to ‘harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world’s youth in overcoming the challenges facing humankind, from enhancing peace to boosting economic development’ (UN 2011).

The three key focus areas of the programme aim to: create awareness, mobilize and engage young…