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Black Friday in Brazil

Black Friday: brawls, stampedes and security staff on full alert…

By Hal Williams BLACK Friday… it’s here again. The term was first used in America, with annual sales starting the day after Thanksgiving sparking shopaholic...
Globalvia: Autopista A23, Beira Interior

Keeping roads safe and open – and the via truly global!

Globalvia literally lives up to its name — an international organisation dedicated to roads and rail infrastructure IT'S EASY to tout an environmentally friendly approach...

IFC: Climate Change – Threat and Opportunity for Private Sector

As world leaders met at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in...
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UK firms on cliff edge as crisis continues, distress tracker reveals

MORE than a half-a-million UK businesses are facing a high risk of insolvency, and 250,000 may not survive another month without a change to...
Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, slums shanty town

‘Slum summit’ brings home reality of poverty to leaders of wealthy...

By HAL WILLIAMS THEY’RE calling it “Davos with the Poor”, a global conference on poverty that will be held in January in Nairobi’s Kibera district...
LEGO garbage truck, recycling

Putting a ‘muzzle’ on capitalism needn’t be a complex challenge

JOEL BAKAN, a jazz musician and Columbia professor, argues that the culture of capitalism is one of selfishness that needs the curb of a...
UN SDG4 Quality Education

SDG4: Gender imbalance and poverty traps on the road towards equal...

BV’s JASON AGNEW continues his series on the United Nations’ Social Development Goals. In this issue, he dissects and discusses SDG4. SDG4: QUALITY EDUCATION NELSON Mandela...

California dreaming with Google’s HR policy

IT IS said that you are more likely to win a place at Harvard or Yale than land a job with Google. The company’s...
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EV News Round-up Autumn 2020

By RICHARD THOMAS In terms of column inches, the biggest news to hit the EV world this quarter has been Tesla's annual shareholders’ meeting, Battery...

IFC: Why Corporate Governance Is Crucial to Myanmar’s Growing Private Sector

Emerging from decades of isolation, Myanmar is undergoing major reforms to become a more market-driven economy. Many are hoping for a meteoric rise of...