Impact Investing
An exchange for impact investing
Impact Investment Exchange, the Asia’s first Social Stock Exchange funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
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Impact Investing
Social Impact Investment Stock Exchange
Professor Durreen Shahnaz’s speech at Asian Private Banker Investment Advisory Summit Singapore 2012
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Country ... Philippines
Some history going back to the Marcos era
Imelda and Me ... Veronica Pedrosa, whose family was forced into exile by the Philippines Marcos regime, confronts Imelda about her past.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... More on abortion
TRMS ... Rachel Maddow opines on the male Republican's knowledge about rape ... this is a big issue in 2012 Republican policies
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republicans and women's issues
TRMS ... The sage of Todd Akin ... getting into difficuolty with his stand on 'legitimate rape' and how the female body responds ... etc etc
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Voter registration confrontations
TRMS ... Montgomery County in Ohio ... Republicans are pulling out all the stops to get control of the vote
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Education
The closing of American academia
The plight of adjunct professors highlights the end of higher education as a means to prosperity.
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Open file 3057
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Region ... Middle East
Nepal ban on Middle East workers
AJE Video ... Women under age of 30 will not be allowed to work in Middle Eastern countries amid concerns over exploitation.
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Region ... Middle East
Indonesia may stop sending maids abroad
East Asian nation looks to stop sending maids abroad by 2017 amid reports many are being abused.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... misstatements and worse
TRMS ... wonderful set of interesting statements by Republican candidates. This is worse than flop-flop it is having both your cake and eating it. Doesn't work. Will the press do their job?
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... being on the ballot
TRMS ... Where was Obama born so should not be on ballot ... but Romney Ryan also have problems with being on the ballot in Washington State
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Countries ... South Africa
Working Conditions in the Mines
S Africa commemorates mine-violence victims ...
Mood tense as services are held for 44 people killed during strike at platinum mine in North West province.
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Country ... South Africa
Legacy of the apartheid era
South Africa: A throwback to the past, a shock for the future ... Police killed 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in South Africa on August 16.
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Country ... South Africa
Violence against striking miners
Police open fire on South African miners ... Not much evidense that this was purely in 'self-defense'
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Open file 3064
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Microfinance
Importance of Training
The Importance of Training ... Perspective of Peter Ryan, Founder and CEO of the Microloan Foundation
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Open file 3065
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Management
Management in the Telecenter Sector
Good management is not an academic analysis of data, but using data, including informal data effectively
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People ... Tammy Duckworth
Impressive human being
Nobody Puts Tammy Duckworth in a Corner ...
Her opponent in her race for Congress, Rep. Joe Walsh, calls Obama a 'tyrant' and belittles her military service. Bring it on.
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Management
Management in the Telecenter Sector
Accounting, Key Items and Management Information ... Focus on what is important
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SOUTH AFRICA
MINE STRIKE VIOLENCE
AJE: South Africa mine shooting: Who is to blame? ... Police who shot and killed 34 striking miners say they fired in self-defence.
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Country ... South Africa
Dozens killed in South Africa mine shooting
Police chief says 34 dead and 78 injured in crackdown on striking workers at platinum mine in North West province.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Paul Ryan's faux populism
Robert Reich ... Ryan's proposed budget doesn't shrink government by cutting benefits and payments to big business and the rich.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Mitt Romney's background
Interesting ... did you know that Mitt Romney started from nothing. Actually someone with a very elite background.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Paul Ryan's rage for the machine
Cliff Schecter ... Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential hopeful takes extreme positions on many economic and social issues.
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Country ... USA
Rule of Law
Due process under duress: Detaining citizens under NDAA ...
Activists retaliate against the US government by suing them for signing a bill they say goes against the Constitution.
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US GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
MANAGING MONEY IN GOVERNMENT
NY Times article from 2002 ... After 9/11, a Torrent of Money, and Anger
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Media
Transparency ... Sex, lies and Wikileaks
AJE Listening Post main story ... As once friendly news outlets report the Julian Assange story more critically, we ask if the media has lost the plot. |
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Country ... Iraq
US Military are Powerful but only soldiers
Permission to Engage ...
Victims' families and an ex-US soldier unpick the Wikileaks film that showed US forces killing Iraqi civilians in 2007.
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Company ... Ernst and Young
Its financial performance from 2003
Most of the time the financial performance of professional firms is kept very secret ... once in a while it comes out.
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Accountability
Fund Flow Analysis
A Burgess letter from 2001 pointing out that fund flows for development assistance do not reach needy beneficiaries
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Accountability
Health and the Global Fund
[af-aids] Re: HIV/AIDS Programs Drain Funds From Programs Aimed at Malaria (2)
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 and more
The Cafe asks if US: is Still #1? ... Will whoever wins the US election find themselves with the unenviable task of overseeing the decline of the US?
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Country ... USA
Romney and Ryan: Fighting for an exclusive US
AJE Opinion ... Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate will have profound implications for the upcoming election.
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Copuntry ... USA
Politics 21012 ... Mitt Romney: The aristocrat
Cliff Schecter ... In a series of gaffes the Republican candidate has managed to distance himself from his fellow Americans.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Two fists full of dollars for Romney
Cliff Schecter ... GOP hopeful's relationship with money embodies everything that is wrong with the US economy.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Akin simply mispoke
Helen Philpot ... My Vagina Has Legitimate Concerns About Electing Republicans
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ...
Chris Matthews Explodes At Reince Priebus Over 'Race Card': 'Awful,' 'Embarrassment,' 'Garbage' (VIDEO)
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republican war on women!
What the 'legitimate rape' fiasco reveals about Paul Ryan's extremist past
Todd Akin's insensitive remarks regarding 'legitimate rape' could provide the Romney ticket with a good smokescreen.
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Trade
Contraband clothes dominate Nigeria's market
Importing used clothes is illegal in Africa's most populous country, even though 80 per cent of Nigerians buy them.
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Country ... Liberia
News ... Alfred's Free Press
One innovative journalist has found a way to get daily news and information to Liberians – with the aid of a blackboard.
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Mining
Mining very profitable
Mining very profitable but value destruction for society ...
AJStream has programme about the Canadian mining industry and its behavior in Latin America
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Water
Water ie more important than oil
AlterNet / It's No Longer Enough to Regulate Corporate Greed: The Global Water Crisis Demands a Paradigm Shift
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republican money
Rachel Maddow introducing us all to the money flows at the upcoming Republican Convention ... it would be funny if this was not so serious
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republicans on abortion
Rachel Maddow ... Todd Akin has opened up a whole dialog about abortion and the potential move in the direction of repealing Rowe v Wade
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republicans and the birthers
Rachel Maddow ... and just for good measure Donald Trump might be getting to make a pitch for his birther position at the GOP convention
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... and who is the real Mitt Romney?
Rachel Maddow ... is Mitt Romney's experience important or not? Mitt Romney does not seem to have decided
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... GOP makes huge ad buy
The Ed Show ... August 27 ... The Republicans are now starting to play the 'welfare' card ... but GOP story is a really big lie
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Water
What exactly is the World Water Forum
Access to Sanitation Reserved for the VIPs at World Water Forum ...
It's a perfect statement about the World Water Forum's agenda serving the rich and powerful while the poor are denied access to water.
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Health
Malaria
TO BE EXPANDED TO REFLECT THE RESULTS OF GLOBAL MALARIA FUNDING
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Open file 3098
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Country ... China
China and its bubbles
China: Broken Dreams ...
Despite the country's rapid economic growth, many young Chinese are growing disillusioned as they struggle to find jobs.
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Open file 3099
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Country ... China
Employment ... jobs
AJE ...How the Government of China is responding to China's growing jobs crisis - 06 March 2009
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