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This is the first of several commentaries on “The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise,” an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July−August 2011 HBR.
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Animal feed in Zambia. Cookies in South Africa. Medical records systems in Botswana. Peanut processing in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. In regions scarred by intractable poverty, innovative programs to build new sources of wealth through these four businesses are providing lessons for entrepreneurs hoping to create new markets and economic opportunity. In a new [...]
Image via Wikipedia A natural variation shows promise for increasing provitamin A in cassava roots using transgenic or conventional methods
The roots of cassava (Manihot esculenta) serve as the primary source of carbohydrates in the diets of people in many arid regions of the world, including more than 250 million people in [...]
Postcards of Hope and Success from Africa
Worldwatch Researcher Visits 150th Project, After 21 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Lomé, Togo-Highlighting Africa-led innovations that offer sustainable ways to alleviate hunger and poverty, Worldwatch Institute senior researcher Danielle Nierenberg visited her 150th site today as part of a one-year tour through Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Niger, Madagascar, and 17 other countries [...]
[CAPE TOWN] Scientists have reversed the action of the humble herbal tea bag to purify water on a small scale. Instead of infusing water with flavour, a sachet sucks up toxic contamination when fitted into the neck of a water bottle.
The researchers, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, hope communities that have no water-cleaning facilities [...]
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In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done – grow sweet potatoes.
But Oyunga’s message to the female farmers in Kisian village is new, even though it is based [...]
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Countries in southern Africa are producing so few scientific publications and patents that the region’s social and economic progress is threatened, and it could fail to meet its Millennium Development Goals, says a study.
The South African Development Community (SADC), comprising 15 countries, produced only around 0.7 per cent of [...]
Also needed are appropriate policies and regulations to spur development of innovative mobile phone-based applications
The fast-growing use of cell phones in Africa — where many people lack the basic human necessities — has made headlines worldwide the past few years. The surprising boom has led to widespread speculation that cell phones could potentially transform [...]
In the summer of 2008, IBM announced the opening of new “cloud computing” centers in South Africa and China. Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal and business services from remote, centralized servers (the “cloud”) that share computing resources and bandwidth — to any device, anywhere.
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In May 2008, the World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with the Danish Government, Global Development Network, Economic and Social Research Foundation in Tanzania, and other World Bank units, organized a conference in Tanzania. The conference was designed to facilitate learning and discuss concrete achievements on key policies, practices, and actors that help enable [...]
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