Africa: Mozambique – Busy Bee to Get Busy
“I am the bee that will make honey for all,” said Filipe Nyusi at a rally just before winning the 2014 presidential election in...
Ha-Joon Chang: Guerrilla Economist
After living in the UK for nearly thirty years, Ha-Joon Chang is not overly impressed by the weather or the national preoccupation with cricket....
UK: How a Nation Learns to Love the Union
UK Prime Minister David Cameron claims to have negotiated a deal to give Britain special status in the European Union. It would, he argued,...
Hail to the Maintainers
About ten years ago, leftist firebrand satirist Freek de Jonge, the grand old man of Dutch stand-up comedy, turned to conservative newspaper De Telegraaf...
UNCDF “What Did We Learn?” Series: UNCDF MicroLead Expansion Innovations Reaching...
Increasing the capacity of financial institutions to provide low-balance savings accounts and reach low-income clients in developing countries with technology-driven products has become an...
Daniel Ek: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Geek
When Swedish entrepreneur and digital hotshot Daniel Ek was 14, he was building web pages for friends using self-taught programming knowhow. And if everything...
Dorothy Hodgkin: From Chemistry Set to Nobel Prize
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), née Crowfoot, is one of only a handful of women to have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She pioneered and...
Eden Full Goh: Here Comes the Sun
Eden Full Goh was barely ten when she picked up a book at the neighbourhood library with detailed instructions on how to build a...
Dr Bernard Kourchner: Activist of Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarian, activist, doctor, and politician: Bernard Kouchner is an outspoken advocate for the duty of states to intervene in other countries in order to...