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Could Community-Based Weather Forecasting Help Defuse Conflict?

By Gracie Cook While religious, sectarian, and geopolitical divisions in the world's hotspots often make headlines, an even more basic driver of conflict is often overlooked: the weather. In agrarian or water-scarce societies, changes in weather patterns lay the groundwork for resource conflicts...

Gender Diversity on Pakistan’s Corporate Boards

Corporate boards have historically been comprised mainly of men. However, a number of countries have begun imposing quotas for the number of women on the boards of publicly traded or state-owned companies — an idea that is now being considered as a European Union-wide rule. This is likely to...

The Future of a Nation: A One Minute Look at Lebanon

By Elie Obeid Lebanon, it's that country in the Middle East that you sometimes miss while going through a map. Despite its small size, Lebanon enjoyed quite a reputation in the 1960s and early 1970s as being the Switzerland of the Middle East, and Beirut, its capital, was known as the Paris of t...

Share Your Experience with Private Sector Partnerships on Open Governance

The Private Sector Council on Open Governance is seeking examples of corporate or business-oriented programs to promote better governance in countries and communities around the world. For instance: Microsoft has held open data hackathons to develop applications for disaster reduction and recove...

Fixing Tunisia’s Economy Requires Reform, Not More Foreign Investment

In light of the recent terror attacks in Tunis and Sousse, which have debilitated the tourism industry and sent investors scurrying to reconsider their options and assets in the country, it is more important than ever to look at the intersection between economic growth and transparent democratic i...

World Chambers Congress focuses on SMEs and Job Creation

Under the banner of “Identity, Community, Vision,” over 1,300 delegates from around the world gathered in Turin, Italy on June 10 to attend the World Chambers Congress. The main focus of the three day event was how to strengthen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide to create jo...

Enhancing Youth’s Political Participation in Pakistan

By Fayyaz Bhidal, Research Manager at Sustainable Development Policy Institute Internationally, the average age of eligibility for election to national parliament starts at 25 years old. According to a UNDP 2012 Global Parliamentary Report, approximately 1.65 percent of parliamentarians globally ar...

A Trinity of Trade: Africa soon to Launch TFTA

By Otito Greg-Obi Recently, African heads of state gathered together in Egypt to sign the Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement (TFTA) which will join the forces of the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the Southern African Development Co...
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