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The Power of Insurance: Why Haiti’s Future Depends on Planning for the Worst 27 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Article Highlights: One of the most important missing links in the Haitian search for prosperity is risk management. AIC strongly believes that unmitigated risk and the country’s under-developed insu...
Providing Hope Never Tasted so Good 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am
Published in Partnership with Forbes It was 2007 and I was disillusioned with corporate life after building and starting up the world’s largest, fully automated cocoa processing line. My plans were ...
Africa’s Catalytic Agricultural Innovations 27 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
As the continent awaits its agricultural revolution, This is Africa looks at the cutting edge ideas which could make the difference While the majority of the African population is heavily reliant on ...
Financing Agricultural Growth in Africa 27 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
After years of neglect, banks, private equity funds and microfinance institutions are bringing capital to African agriculture Africa’s agriculture sector has struggled to access the financing it need...
Setting the Table: Who’s Who in the Impact Economy 21 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
The last post in this series provided a broad overview of the Impact Economy. But what is it really? As stated by Jonathan Greenblatt of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participa...
The Value Addition Imperative in Agriculture 21 Aug 2013 | 11:18 am
Local agricultural processing is vital as Africa’s food imports continue to rise – but not all commodities are well suited to domestic value addition A rising middle class and expanding population ar...
Bridging the Gap: Enemies and Friends 21 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
On the Security and Law Enforcement panel of the World Justice Forum IV, Karen Tse, CEO and founder of International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), was asked whether or not she views police officers as her...
The Multi-Platform Rule of Law 20 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
The rule of law is a many splendored thing. It means different things to different people with different levels of certainty about different systems that do different things, which all, hopefully, con...
World Humanitarian Day: Diary of an International Aid Worker in Jordan 20 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
Published in Partnership with Forbes I arrived in Amman a year ago, for what was to be just a short mission to join the World Food Programme (WFP) team providing food assistance to Syrian refugees in...
Do All the Good You Can 20 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
Published in Partnership with Forbes Article Highlights: Today, right now, more and more of the biggest companies in the world see their ecological footprint in the context of a finite planet with d...
