Archive for Post-conflict reconstruction
links for 2008-09-08
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Has them all…
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… and even if it would only be for their own servers, it would help.
links for 2008-03-09
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Responding: Are social networks good for society?
… why do we always want to migrate to the next level?
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Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blog
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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
Freemium - why 1% of users pay for the other 99% and why we still have a digital divide. There is hope, though: How will the generation born in the 90s (growing up with the free web) deal with this?
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China: Companies need to show green progress to expand
The days of cost-benefits through pollution might soon be over.
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Mining companies demand human rights standards in China
Rio Tinto and AA as pressure groups for CSR
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(CSRwire) Mercy Corps, USAID and Wal-Mart Forge Alliance for Guatemalan Farmers
Wal-Mart on the road to Fairtrade?
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Video: Fair Trade for All - How Trade Can Promote Development
Stiglitz on above
Coffee to ease ethnic tensions?
The World Bank PSD blog points to a piece the BBC had on coffee plantations in Rwanda. Apart from producing fair trade and high-quality coffee, coffee growing reportedly produces healing and reconciling effects of joint work by Hutus and Tutsis, fostering understanding and providing “a practical programme (…) that brings people together.”
Here’s more details on this.
Update: After seeing Black Gold, Coffee will never taste the same, reads the blurb. Pienso adds to this the debate on Fair trade at the World Bank blog.