US Economy
Unemployment
Bill Conway, a co-founder of the Carlyle Group asks how would you use $1 billion to create jobs for the poor?
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Hundreds of Issues
Academia
The academic community can be a valuable source of research, analysis and understanding. They are also associated with the lack of practical performance in the relief and development sector.
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Jobs
Global Labor Market
The outsourcing bogeyman ... Outsourcing benefits all countries by focusing on competitive advantage, but many politicians do not understand this.
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Hundreds of Issues
Account codes
Account codes are the foundation for easy powerful analysis. They should be absolutely logical and reflect sound accounting principles.
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Hundreds of Issues
Accountability
Accountability is the process that holds people in an organization responsible for their decisions and the results being achieved. It is key to management and high performance in organizations.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
US Politics ... Elizabeth Warren ... progressive voice of reason
Elizabeth Warren, a US Senate candidate and voice of reason amid madness, has a way of speaking about progressive values that makes people listen.
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Hundreds of Issues
Accounting
Accounting is the most basic of management tools, but also one of the most powerful. It is simple accounting that provides the definitive measure of financial performance, especially in corporate organizations.
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Hundreds of Issues
Accounts
Every organizational entity and every activity should have accounts. They can be simple, but they must be complete.
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Hundreds of Issues
Adult education
Adults should have the opportunity to learn, either to catch up or to learn incrementally.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The great debt scare
Robert Schiller notes the drop in economic confidence was sharper in July 2011 than it was in 2008, due to fears of a US debt default.
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Economic Information
Something about the Gallup methodology
Much of the Gallup methodology is based on responses from telephone inquiry
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US Economy ... Quality of Life
Report from Gallup on Life Rating
According to Gallop Americans' Life Ratings at Two-Year Low ... More Americans 'suffering' in August
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US Economy ... Quality of Life
Gallup on Economic Confidence
Upper-Income Americans' Economic Confidence Shaken Gallup's Economic Confidence measure
down sharply from July
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Economic Dynamics
Steady State Economy
Herman Daly on the 2008 Credit Crisis, Financial Assets, and Real Wealth
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Economic Dynamics
Steady State Economy
Comment stream from essay by Herman Daly on the 2008 Credit Crisis, Financial Assets, and Real Wealth
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US Economy
What role government? Delaware’s very own Solyndra
Will Delaware and US citizens get stuck with a Bloom Energy fuel cell boondoggle?
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Food and Agriculture
Family farming ... craft agriculture
A small family farm in New York State produces the tastiest bacon you'll ever eat
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Activism ... Behind the scenes of #OccupyWallStreet
The protests on Wall Street are growing larger, despite police using pepper spray and making arrests.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
America needs a new New Deal
Since Roosevelt's era, infrastructure, manufacturing and the viability of our ecosystem have declined dramatically.
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AlJazeera English ... Features
Bill Gates to support 'Robin Hood' tax
The wealthiest man in the US has put his support behind a tax targeting the wealthy which would be given to the poor.
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US Politics
Rachel Maddow September 26, 2011
VIDEO About Speaker Boehner's performance as a Congessional leader
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Global Economics
Official Development Assictance (ODA)
Beyond Aid. Speech by World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick
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Capital Markets
The Impact investing asset class
Impact investing ... Happy returns ... The birth of a virtuous new asset class
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US Politics
Rachel Maddow September 26, 2011
VIDEO
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Value Metrics
Dialog with Calvert Foundation
Investor Spotlight: Lisa Hall, President and CEO at Calvert Foundation, shares her perspective with the GIIN community.
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Value Metrics
How do you monitor your social performance?
How do you monitor your social performance?
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Metrics
Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS)
TO COME
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Metrics
Impact Investments
Launch of the World's First Ratings and Analytics Platform for Impact Investing: GIIRS-ratings for Funds and Companies
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Banking Reform
Reforms: Banks locked in vicious circle as regulators debate tougher rules
Reforms: Banks locked in vicious circle as regulators debate tougher rules
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US Economy
Kansas City Fed chief Thomas Hoenig sounds alarm
Kansas City Fed chief Thomas Hoenig sounds alarm
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Metrics
GIIRS to be used by foundation in Africa
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Announces Commitment to Impact Investing and GIIRS Ratings &
Analytics at The Clinton Global Initiative
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Official Development Assistance (ODA)
PBS documentary shows two cases in Kenya
VIDEO Two cases of questionable development in Kenya. Lots of questions but no answers
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Is the world too big to fail?
Noam Chomsky explains how the global order of power has been created and describes the mechanisms behind its continuity.
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Accounting and Accountability
Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Mlaria (GFATM)
The Final Report of the High-Level Independent Review Panel on
Fiduciary Controls and Oversight Mechanisms of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Economics and Entrepreneurs
Structure for Development Progress
Agora Partnerships: 'Optimism and Purpose are the World's Most Important Resource'
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TVM Methodology
State, Progress and Performance Overview
A TVM State, Progress and Performance Overview based on value flows through a period of time
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US Economy
Taxation ... information and dis-inforemation
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
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AlJazeera English ... Americas
Wall Street protests spread to other cities
Protests inspired by 'Occupy Wall Street' movement have emerged in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The Arab Spring's unintended consequences
In Iraq, sectarian violence continues to flare - this year being the costliest for the US since the 2007 surge.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
A global agenda for seven billion
A baby will soon be born, marking the 7th billion citizen in a world that needs much more global cooperation.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Thick as BRICS
Several emerging economies are pursuing the wrong path to greater international influence.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Anti-Extractivism: A global force?
With the rise of oil-prices, detrimental extractive industries are emerging and local communities are taking action.
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AlJazeera English ...Middle East
UN condemns jail sentence for Bahrain medics
UN chief criticises 'harsh' prison terms for medical workers who treated protesters during March uprising.
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AlJazeera English ... Features
'Goldman Sachs rules the world'
A self-described financial 'expert' makes incendiary remarks about bankers but former Goldman traders disagree.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Prioritising a solution to world hunger
Whatever the weather, world leaders can make extreme hunger a thing of the past, says writer.
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Money, Banking and Financial Services
Activism
First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET, a movement that is concerned that the
'banks got bailed out ... while we (the people) got sold out!'
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TVM Methodology
Value Chain Analysis ... The Energy Value Chain
The Energy Value Chain is very different than the Profit Business Model for Enegy
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Activisim
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has grown some over three weeks in September 2011, and starts to spread across the USA
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Activisim
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has grown some over three weeks in September 2011, and starts to spread across the USA
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Activisim
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has grown some over three weeks in September 2011, and starts to spread across the USA
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