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While a prestigious university could help you cross a border, could your Facebook friends?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and became the sole platform left to thousands of demonstrators. Overnight, social media services like Facebook and Twitter gained maturity beyond their usual labels of efficiency-sapping distractions. ... Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Vuvuzelas: The difference between culture and imperialism can be subtle
Category: Blog/Analysis
... state has published daily rates for thousands of categories of workers. Pragati Glass, the Gujarati-based producer, claims that they are meeting the daily minimum wage requirements for their class of ... Thursday, 22 July 2010 -
The long, hard road of self-publishing a web comic
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Rosenberg, in a heartfelt message to his fans, is throwing in the towel and planning to find a "real" job. There are thousands of online comics on every conceivable subject and in every imaginable ... Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Cash and Ash Crisis demonstrate global interdependency
Category: Blog/Analysis
... by air every day. This employs hundreds of thousands of people and is worth 20% of the nation’s economy. On top of this, highly-perishable cash crops are being discarded. One of the winners is Spain ... Thursday, 20 May 2010 -
Reducing risk for the poorest of the unbanked and uninsured
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to set fixed usury rates then the average loan value increases. In Colombia, the average was $534 before a recent cap, which jumped to $1,250 afterwards. Tens of thousands of people who would have been ... Thursday, 15 April 2010 -
Administration to Creation - Microsoft recovers its mojo
Category: Blog/Analysis
... – while serviceable – has not delighted or driven fans into shopping frenzies. Yet Microsoft Mobile still has a massive installed base of users, from the thousands of companies which create and support ... Thursday, 25 March 2010 -
Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
Category: Blog/Analysis
... distributors, designers and engineers. Hundreds of thousands of musicians and programmers have benefited from sales of their products to a hungry and devoted Apple fan-base. Innovation that results ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
Europeans are waking up to the realisation that South Africa is not Germany. “The short haul meant thousands of supporters were able to make last-minute trips to Germany and they discovered excellent ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to economic hardship. Under the guise of "food security", thousands of households are being settled on tiny plots that are supposed to support them. They aren’t and, as people are dispersed in this ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
Category: Blog/Analysis
... by thousands of enraged youngsters determined to exercise their “right” to copy what they like, when they like. Imagine a world in which there is no right to the result of your creativity. You may be ... Thursday, 29 October 2009 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the actions of thousands of workers to bring a workplace to a standstill. But it takes the knowledge and ingenuity of but a single investor to get it started again. ... Thursday, 22 October 2009 -
The day the pop-star died
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in the northern hemisphere features thousands of these multi-day events. The North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam attracts 70,000 fans; Burning Man in the US (not strictly a music festival) attracts 50,000; ... Thursday, 01 October 2009 -
Towards sustainable and organic work
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the inefficiency of subsistence farming. Modern farming can, in very real terms, make the desert bloom and produce nutritious food. For thousands of years, the single purpose of agriculture has been ... Thursday, 17 September 2009 -
The end of the line for wild tuna
Category: Blog/Analysis
... decision, not a consumer one. Only governments can commit to pay for the retraining and redevelopment necessary when entire industries are shut down and thousands lose their jobs. Only governments ... Thursday, 03 September 2009 -
Strikes won’t help, but a little ingenuity goes a long way
Category: Blog/Analysis
... are countless businesses that never get very far, or fail outright. And this is normal. Job creation is not really about selecting one or two big companies and getting them to hire thousands of people. ... Thursday, 27 August 2009 -
Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
Category: Blog/Analysis
... manual telephone exchanges; thousands of women plugging and replugging individual lines in order to connect telephone calls. Likewise, few think too much about what happened to companies that made telephone ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 -
YouTube can be a Star
Category: Blog/Analysis
... few months, hundreds of thousands of people were tuning in to watch the four or five diary entries she posted, as lonelygirl15, each week. It helped that Bree is pretty and lively, but people were also ... Thursday, 26 March 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Businesses, and large businesses especially, are not run by one or two people. There can be thousands all working to produce the products we buy. Aligning the interests of all these diverse humans with ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Stimulating economic development by promoting price discovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... When it fails, investors lose their money and workers lose their jobs. When it succeeds, it creates whole new industries that employ thousands and create massive new opportunities. Governments that ... Tuesday, 17 February 2009 -
How to cross a river...
Category: Blog/Analysis
... how to solve it? Where are the businessmen? Where the manufacturers that can create thousands of jobs? They, like the most talented in the communities along the Tugela, have migrated abroad in search ... Saturday, 16 August 2008
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