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Youth Unemployment and Youth Entrepreneurship Funds
This is a guest post written by Tawedzerwa Ngundu who is a Senior Economist at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and is currently undertaking an International Leadership Training in German under a Scholarship from the German Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Promotion. He did an Internship at Bertelsmann for close […]
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Agriculture Development in Underdeveloped Islands
This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Over the past few years, there has been an increasing focus on the development of agriculture in Papua and West […]
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Finance, Innovation and Social Cohesion
This article was originally drafted by Noviscape for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. World Bank building in Washington, D.C. (By Shiny Things (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) In the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis, […]
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Financing development: the role of regional and sub-regional development banks in Latin America
This article was originally drafted by the Foro Nacional/Internacional for the newsletter “South America: Trends and Change for Development” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. This election of Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank gained high-profile in times […]
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Siddharta Mukherjee: “A positive attitude does not cure cancer, anymore than a negative one causes it”
Here you can find a short introduction to the book “A Biography of Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies” by Siddharta Mukherjee. This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. It deals with all of the unknown aspects of the fight against cancer. Mukherjee’s book makes cancer seem less like […]