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Job Creation in Afghanistan: Over 100,000 and counting..
19 September 2011 | Building Markets
After four months of collecting data, two months of analysis and a month of reviewing, perfecting, crossing things out and putting them back in again, Peace Dividend Trust tod...
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Holding Our Breath for Cleaner Air
2 August 2011 | Building Markets
The Taliban may receive greater notoriety, but air pollution is Kabul’s biggest threat and killer....
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Women, entrepreneurship & Afghanistan: A chat with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
29 June 2011 | Building Markets
A conversation with author Gayle Lemmon about the limits of microfinance, business under the Taliban, tapping into entrepreneurial energy, and some of the challenges and oppor...
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Kabul Snapshots
14 June 2011 | Building Markets
Business as usual in Afghanistan really is business. Despite the endless images that flash on Western TV screens, Afghans are focused on thriving, not just surviving. But beca...
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US government success touted as failure in Afghanistan
17 August 2011 | Building Markets
Some amazing good news was wrapped up in what appeared to be some shocking bad news today. Politico, AP, ABC, and others are reporting that a jaw dropping $360m of US govt mon...
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War, Chaos & CSR in Afghanistan
19 July 2011 | Building Markets
Many Afghan firms are redesigning what corporate social responsibility (CSR) means in a conflict situation....
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Going Dutch in Afghanistan
23 June 2011 | Building Markets
Why the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's estimate that 97% of Afghanistan's GDP is reliant upon military and donor aid is misleading, to say the least....
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Switching on Solar in Afghanistan
9 August 2011 | Building Markets
In a sun-drenched, fuel-starved nation such as Afghanistan, solar energy is providing an effective and inexpensive source of power....
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The Light of a Secure Peace
14 July 2011 | Building Markets
Western resources to support Afghanistan in fulfilling its potential is limited. Fortunately, Afghan potential is not. Phil Colgan on what the future holds for "the graveyard ...
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From “Independence”, to “Aid” Activism.
21 June 2011 | Building Markets
This story travels from Dili to Monrovia - with stops in Juba, Port-au-Prince, Kinshasa, Freetown and other tough places along the way. When occupied, the Timorese were indepe...
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