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One mining company's approach to local procurement
25 Mar 2014 | Building Markets
In recent years, mining companies have been increasing their focus on local procurement to provide more benefits to communities while reducing supplier costs associated with t...
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A New Kind of Karaoke: join the conversation on local sourcing
20 Feb 2013 | Building Markets
We're going to be writing more regularly about local procurement and the ways in which it contributes to worldwide economic development, job creation, and the reduction of pov...
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Women, Energy, and Potential: our chat with Solar Sister
14 Sep 2011 | Building Markets
Our chat with CEO Katherine Lucey about how Solar Sister is getting renewable energy to rural African households by harnessing the power and passion of women entrepreneurs....
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Women, entrepreneurship & Afghanistan: A chat with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
29 Jun 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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Connecting the Policy with the Practice: Interview with Engineers Without Borders CEO George Roter
29 Feb 2012 | Building Markets
PDT sits down to chat with George Roter, the CEO of Engineers Without Borders Canada, about EWB's work, citizen advocacy, and agricultural value chains. Aka what all the cool ...
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School's Full - Time to Learn
08 Sep 2011 | Building Markets
For World Literacy Day, Intern Clare says that building schools is not the way to improving education - access is only the beginning to improving the quality of education arou...
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Eau d'Empowerment - the scent of opportunity: a conversation with Barb Stegemann
21 Sep 2011 | Building Markets
Intern Clare chats with Barb Stegemann, founder and CEO of The 7 Virtues, a perfume company that sources its essential oils from Afghanistan and Haiti, about trade partnership...
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