MoneyScience: 'haiti' related content

Earthquakes don’t kill people; poorly constructed buildings do. Every year, thousands of people in developing countries are killed or injured when their houses collapse duri...

News: The Bank Of The South, U.S. Dollar Hegemony, Waning Corporate Empire, Capitalism’s Tipping Point And Venezuela’s Upcoming Election

42 days ago - Rantings on Markets, Economics and Business Strategy

This is a very long post and may be my last for a while. I’ll be back. Probably May or early June at the latest. If the title topics are of interest,...

News: How do we immunize a quarter billion children by 2015?

116 days ago - Forum:Blog

There is a growing and welcome awareness that the world’s biggest health challenges have profound economic implications as well. Illnesses such as pneumonia, measles and men...

News: An aspirational lifestyle for 7 billion people?

116 days ago - Forum:Blog

There is an unconscious and slightly patronising attitude out there in the world about doing our bit to help poor people with some aid, which does not seem to see the link to ...

News: Mobile cash, the challenges

117 days ago - Forum:Blog

Imagine a world in which the most vulnerable, through their mobile phone, were able to receive government payments, buy food, receive a transfer from their family member livin...

News: Unlikely bedfellows can work together on poverty

119 days ago - Forum:Blog

Neal Keny-Guyer, Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, on how a public-private partnership helps Haitians to protect their livelihoods after disasters. Read the World Econ...

News: What if a disaster on the scale of the Haiti earthquake happened again?

126 days ago - Forum:Blog

Ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake on January 12, Baroness Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordin...

News: Can we adapt to climate change?

175 days ago - Forum:Blog

In a series of blog posts curated by the World Economic Forum’s Climate Change Initiatives, a number of leading voices will present their perspectives on climate change. Con...