Jun 25 2015
Perspective
Earlier this month, leaders of the G7 reaffirmed a pledge to mobilize $100 billion per year from public and private sources to help developing countries tackle climate change. This pledge …
Jun 19 2015
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A version of this post originally appeared on the World Bank's Investing in Health blog. Last Friday, I had the privilege of attending the launch of a new global report that …
Jun 16 2015
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Like many people across the world, we at The Rockefeller Foundation have been captivated by the news coming out of Nepal. We were truly saddened by the reports of new deaths, …
Jun 08 2015
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A version of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. The traditional model for getting a satellite into orbit can take years–and once they're up there, the technology is sometimes already obsolete, …
Jun 04 2015
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2015 is a star-powered year in the world of international development. The year kicked off with the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos to discuss the new global context …
Jun 01 2015
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The past few decades have seen a significant increase in urbanization in low and middle income countries. The vast majority of those moving to and living in cities rarely find …
May 21 2015
Perspective
This post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum. As individuals we sometimes feel that there is very little that we can do in the face of big global challenges such as …
May 20 2015
Perspective
Only a few weeks ago, Nepal experienced a 7.8 earthquake that took the lives of more than 7,000 people, destroyed almost 300,000 homes, and left the remaining population with years …
May 18 2015
Perspective
Amazon recently announced—and for the first time—the earnings of its cloud storage and computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The report from the company pegged AWS revenue for the fourth …
May 15 2015
Press Releases
CAPE TOWN—The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business has joined an international partnership to convene the second annual Rockefeller …