How can we Measure the Impact of Peacebuilding?
10 May 2012 | Building Markets
An Alliance for Peacebuilding report features a case study of Building Markets in Afghanistan....
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A Juicy Tale
11 Apr 2012 | Afghanistan
Meet entrepreneurs, helped by PDM-Helmand, who are building the Helmandi marketplace! This is part five of the series....
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Helmandi Business Resilience
30 Mar 2012 | Afghanistan
Helmand is still one of the most difficult operating environments in Afghanistan. Despite the security challenges, local entrepreneurs in the country’s largest province disp...
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The View From the Ivory Tower: Corruption
18 Jan 2012 | Building Markets
Just how bad is corruption for development? It all comes down to greasers vs. sanders... ...
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The Emergent Continent: Part 4 of 4: Re-conceptualizing Aid
22 Nov 2011 | Building Markets
This is a guest post by Carol Gallo, who blogs at the UN Dispatch, and is the last of a four-part series. ...
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Getting to work in Kenya: The realities of youth employment
12 Oct 2011 | Building Markets
Kenya's growing ICT sector has been one of the region’s most phenomenal development stories in recent years. The country has become a pioneer in mobile technology through th...
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Quietude in Qabul
09 Feb 2011 | Afghanistan
We think about and write about development on this blog, but not every inspiration has to be from another development worker or writer or thinker. We can keep a certain perspe...
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Local Perspectives: Children on Education
13 Apr 2012 | Afghanistan
Meet entrepreneurs, helped by PDM-Helmand, who are building the Helmandi marketplace! This is the last part of the series....
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Growing Local Business
10 Apr 2012 | Afghanistan
Meet entrepreneurs, helped by PDM-Helmand, who are building the Helmandi marketplace! This is part four of the series....
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The Helmand National Investors Association: Strength in Numbers
29 Mar 2012 | Afghanistan
Helmand is still one of the most difficult operating environments in Afghanistan. Despite the security challenges, local entrepreneurs in the country’s largest province disp...
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The Peacebuilding Evaluation Paradox
21 Dec 2011 | Building Markets
In a field that specializes in dialogue, consensus-building and finding solutions to complex challenges, surprisingly absent is a balanced exchange on a fundamental piece of o...
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Young Entrepreneurs Making Waves in Africa: A chat with Now AfriCAN
02 Nov 2011 | Building Markets
Laura Seay speaks with Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, co-founder of Now AfriCAN, an organization working to empower and train young African entrepreneurs. ...
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What We Can Learn From A Cambridge Economist
05 Oct 2011 | Building Markets
Tom Murphy talks baseball and randomized control trials, and what the two have in common for redefining the way we measure success....
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Revolution Unending...
06 Feb 2011 | Afghanistan
There is an indigenous movement brewing in Kabul. It's not the neo-Taliban or foreign fighters, nevertheless it is revolutionary. Unlike Tunisia or Cairo, its agents of change...
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Local Perspectives: A Day in the Park
12 Apr 2012 | Afghanistan
Meet entrepreneurs, helped by PDM-Helmand, who are building the Helmandi marketplace! This is part six of the series....
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From Mines to Markets
09 Apr 2012 | Afghanistan
Meet entrepreneurs helped by the PDM-Helmand project. Part three in the series....
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As the Aid Players Shift
25 Jan 2012 | Building Markets
Why the rhetoric of "rich North vs. poor South" must be left behind in development thinking....
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Markets: Hot, Aid: Not
30 Nov 2011 | Building Markets
Elmira Bayrasli explains why social entrepreneurship is the answer to fragmented aid....
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The Adventures of the Little Peacekeeper: An Interview
26 Oct 2011 | Building Markets
We caught up with the Little Peacekeeper to find out more about his adventures and what inspires him to work all over the world for peace....
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Happy Women’s Day from Afghanistan
08 Mar 2011 | Afghanistan
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day -- which, incidentally, used to be called International Working Women’s Day -- with this year's theme being:...
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