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Mexican sun and German technology are the two key components of Gregor Schapers’ innovative project. Deep in rural Mexico, in a small town of 450 inhabitants called El Sauz, Schapers, a German entrepreneur, founded Trinysol, a firm specializing in building cheap solar reflectors for small local businesses to bake, cook […]

Aart de Geus – chairman of Bertelsmann Stiftung – gave an interview to  Future Challenges at the 2013 edition of the Global Economic Symposium (GES), held in the north German town of Kiel. Prior to his current position, Aart de Geus was Dutch Minister for Social Affairs and Employment and more […]

On my first day at the GES I had the pleasure of kicking off the GES interviews by sitting down with Jan Rieländer, an economist with the OECD and a specialist in one of the topics that are really dear to me, African development. I asked Mr. Rieländer about the […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Most of the panels at the Global Economic Symposium had quite a strict format,  with a bunch of luminaries in direct agreement over a topic discussing what the best approach  to the issue would be. Sometimes there […]

Go to any of China’s major cities and you’re likely to find an underground metro system either up and running or nearing completion. The expense of building or expanding subway lines has often been the cause of political controversy in the West, but subways have found new enthusiastic advocates in […]