Entries Tagged to 'development'
World Bank consultant Nii Simmonds talks about: how he is developing technical assistance programmes with the diaspora; the industry sectors he's working with; the importance of the agri-business sector; the way multinationals are looking at agri-business; boot-camps for agri-business start-ups; and the kind of people involved in these start-ups.
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October 13, 2015
Murali Shanmugavelan, founder MApp-IT talks aboutL why development projects need an app for collecting data in remote areas; what the app can do and how it works offline; its development in Afghanistan; and who might find it useful in Africa.
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February 19, 2015
Syed Karim, founder and CEO, Outernet talks about: what Outernet is and what it does; the cost of one of the devices to receive it; whether it's a media or hardware company; how it's financed; its customers and users; and what it's going to be doing in Africa.
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February 1, 2015
Wayan Vota, Communications Manager, Development Gateway and a partner in the Open Government Hub talks about: what the Open Government Hub does; how the Freelabs Initiative came about; how it can be used to bring the citizen into the conversation about Government and donor funding in developing countries; and issues like citizen expectations.
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October 25, 2013
Ben Bellows, Research Associate, Population Council, Kenya talks about: the health gap in terms of births between OECD and developing countries and within rich and poor in developing countries; using vouchers to target subsidy to low-income families; the Kenyan pilot in 5 out of 47 counties; and the impact of the pilot so far.
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May 28, 2013
Owen Barder, Director for Europe, Center for Global Development on: areas where rich nations can improve the prospects of poorer nations (investment, trade, technology transfer, security, migration and environment); ensuring that multinationals pay their taxes equitably in developing countries; how the decisions made over things like food by emerging nations affect poorer nations; why some of the poorer nations are against trade reform; the impact of developed world standards as a barrier to trade; and why migration is a politically tough issue but essential to encouraging global development.
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March 2, 2013
Jerome Booth, Research Manager, Ashmore on why some developing countries are developing faster than others; why Africa may undergo what happened in Latin America 20 years ago; why development aid should incentivise good governance; and the importance of property rights
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June 11, 2011
