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Charter Cities: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
This is ‘governance outsourcing’ – benchmarking it to global best practices, and giving opportunity to thousands of citizens, and later millions, to improve their lives quickly – instead of leading miserable lives under local political leaders who are criminal and/or incompetent and local institutions that are dysfunctional. An experiment, if succceful, others will want to [...]
Mercosur Shares Social Concerns, Diverges on Economy
Politicians, stuck in an industrial era mindset, love to “protect jobs” since that plays well among interest groups like unions, while they completely neglect skill-building, the key to not only citizens being eligible for many jobs in the knowledge era, but also in a position to create jobs as entrepreneurs. Unlike someone who has been [...]
MICROFINANCE: Six Pioneers in Latin America
Microcapital Microcapital has identified the following six microfinance “pioneers,” individuals who have made long-standing contributions to the evolution and promotion of microfinance practices and/or technology. While not all of these pioneers hail from Latin America, all have been instrumental to the development of microfinance in that region. These pioneers are: Álvaro Dávila of Colombia, Joseph [...]
Colombian coffee icon defies Starbucks doldrums
International Herald Tribune Starbucks may be struggling, but a Colombian cafe chain built on the fame of the world’s biggest coffee icon is determined to buck the trend. Even as cash-short consumers cut back on gourmet blends, the Juan Valdez Cafe is selling coffee at 101 stores across Colombia, as well as at outposts in [...]
The Afterlife of American Clothes: Haitian entrepreneurs find value in castoffs
Reason Magazine When thrifty shoppers in Boston and Miami pick through secondhand shirts at local Salvation Army outlets or estate sales, they are as likely to meet Haitians as hipsters. Some of the immigrants will simply be collecting clothes to mail back to family in Port-au-Prince, but others are part of a large global network [...]
Entrepreneurship | Spreading the gospel
Traditionally in Latin America, if you were smart and from a respectable family, becoming a lawyer was the ultimate in gaining societal status and wealth. Or maybe a doctor. Then possibly an engineer. Now many countries in the region have an abundance of abogados (lawyers) – many of them with no work. Only when entrepreneurship [...]
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