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Business Headlines May Be Gloomy, But There Are Bright Spots

Judith Samuelson | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Advent Financial Services, walmart.com, Unilever, First Movers Fellowship, Social Innovation, Bbva, Aspen Institute, Business Impact, Fedex, Inter-American Development Bank, Business News
Judith Samuelson

When I check out the morning headlines, I have a yearning for the problems of yore. I want to go back to 2002 and worry about Enron, rather than a global meltdown.

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Fonkoze Helps Rebuild Haiti through Microfinance Following Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Department of Defense, Earthquake, Partners in Health, Micro-Life Insurance, Grameen Foundation, Anne Hastings, United Nations, Ngo, U.S. Military, Moneygram, Port-Au-Prince, Fondasyon Kole Zepol, Miami, Whole Foods Market, Multilateral Investment Fund, Microfinance, Inter-American Development Bank, Haiti, Fonkoze, Alex Counts, Fonkoze Financial Services, Homestead Air Force Base, Alternative Insurance Company, Cam, Whole Planet Foundation, Poverty, City National Bank of New Jersey, Usaid, U.S. State Department, Cgap, Oikocredit, Meda, Unitransfer, World News
Jim Luce

Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...

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World Bank: We Are in Haiti for the Long Haul

Yvonne Tsikata | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Debt, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Haiti Earthquake, Debt Relief, Haiti, Hipc, World BankGlobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, Inter American Development Bank, World News
Yvonne Tsikata

Today's announcement that we're waiving all debt payments from Haiti for the next 5 years is only a small sliver of our much larger commitment to Haiti.

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What the Mainstream Media Will Not Tell You About Haiti: Part of the Suffering of Haiti is "Made in the USA"

Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Inter-American Development Bank, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, World News
Bill Quigley

In the last decade alone, the U.S. slashed humanitarian assistance to Haiti, forced its government to downsize, ruined tens of thousands of small farmers, and blocked international loans.

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Cutting Off the Honduran Coup's Air Supply

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honduran Coup, Inter-American Development Bank, School of the Americas Watch, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Panamax, World News
Laura Carlsen

With grassroots challenges growing throughout the country and outside supplies being cut off, the question the world is asking is: How long can this last?

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Fonkoze: Haitian Diaspora Unites Across U.S.

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Hastings, Overseas Remittances, Organized Poor, Thought Leaders, Western Union, Global Citizens, Jimmy Toussaint, Haitian Students Association of Long Island University, Jim Luce, Port-Au-Prince, Father Joseph Philippe, CNB New Jersey and UMASS, HEC Montreal, University of Massachusetts, Alianza International, Barbara Magnoni, University of Fondwa, Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad, Haitian Diaspora, Haitian American Business Network, Inter-American Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, ?€œDollars and Diaspora?, Haiti, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago., Katleen Felix, University of Montreal, Latin American & Caribbean Center, Jennifer Ching, National Association for the Advancement of Haitians, Youtube, Appleseed, Moneygram, Fonkoze, Haitian-American, World News
Jim Luce

"The Diaspora is the driving force for the economic development of the country, but in order to reach that objective, overseas Haitians need to be organized locally, state-wide, and nationally."

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Remittances To Latin America, Caribbean Nations To Decline This Year After A Decade Of Growth

McClatchy | Lesley Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Remittances, Latin America Remittances, Caribbean Remittances, Caribbean, Remittances 2009, Inter-American Development Bank, Latin America, Global Financial Crisis, Immigration, Foreign Affairs, Early Voting, World News

WASHINGTON -- The slumping global economy is slowing the amount of money that migrant workers send home to their families in Latin America and the Car...

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Chavez, S. American Allies Launch Regional Bank

AP | Bill Cormier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imf, Banco Del Sur, Chavez, Hugo Chavez, Inter-American Development Bank, Bank of the South, President Chavez, World Bank, Business News

Hugo Chavez and leaders of six other South American nations launched a regional development bank that they tout as the continent's answer to U.S.-infl...

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