George Eliot observed that “among all forms of error, prophesy is the most gratuitous.” Yogi Berra is said to have said the same thing in less adorned language: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
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Authored by: Tracy Elsen
Editor’s Note: This week, NextBillion contributors are reflecting on what struck them as the best ideas that came to light in 2011 – ideas with the potential to spark real change in 2012 and beyond.
Will 2011 be remembered as the year that, as the world’s population hit 7 billion and problems in our economic model became increasingly apparent, we began figuring out how to transform the global economy to green growth? I certainly hope so.
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A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery :: Amazon Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainabil |
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Designing the Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization :: Amazon Designing the Green Economy explores realistically, and in detail, the worldOs enormous potential for human and ecological regeneration. It |
Authored by: Diana Hollmann
Nobody had foreseen what we witnessed happening throughout the Arab World in 2011: Three heads of state have been ousted from office, at least two still fear for their power as citizens fight for their rights, shaping a new Arab World.
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Authored by: Logan Yonavjak and Giulia Christianson
Thirty years of research shows that a small percentage of SMEs create the vast majority of net new jobs and GDP growth in the U.S. and Europe, but how does this translate into opportunities in emerging markets?
A group of experts convened at the IFC headquarters last month to discuss the potential for fast growth Small and Medium Enterprises known as “High Impact Companies” (HICs) or “gazelles” to achieve poverty reduction and development goals in emerging markets. Panelists included:
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Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda (Unu-Wider Studies in Development Economics) :: Amazon Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and |
TO MAKE electricity from sunlight you can convert it directly, using a photovoltaic cell. Or you can use the heat of that sunlight to boil water, and then drive a turbine with the resulting steam.
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