More Grim News on UK Economy for 2010

In central London, the fate of one of the city's biggest book store chains echoes December's minutes of the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England. As Borders bookstore had its final closing sale - with...

Brewing Prosperity Creates Good Jobs

A brewery is prospering in one of the world's most volatile regions. And it is making high-quality beer and providing good-paying jobs and a regional success story. In the Democratic Republic of Congo –...

Digital Mapping to put Slums on the Map

Powerful digital technologies are now offering the possibility to map poverty and social deprivation in real-time, making it possible to better target help and change people's lives for the better. Mobile phones...

Afropolitan: African Fashion Scene Bursting with Energy

Africa's fashion scene has found its footing in the last few years. Dynamic, growing and bursting with ideas and energy, it now contains style leaders taking their rightful place on the world's stage. Fashion is a...

Southern Art Hubs Grab Attention for Creative Economy

The power of art to help in regenerating communities is also simultaneously building creative economies in countries where poverty or disaster have taken their toll.  Regeneration – of poor neighbourhoods,...

Tiny Homes to Meet Global Housing Needs

Two trends have dramatically altered the world: since 2007, the world has become a majority urban place, while the world's megacities in the global South are growing fast and facing the serious challenge of how to...

Growing a Southern Brand to Global Success: The Olam Story

How a company started in Nigeria is now playing a key role in the world's food supply.Most people haven't heard of Olam International, but they know the brands they work for and they more than likely eat their...

Ending Gang Violence While Cleaning the Streets in Haiti

How a project in Haiti has cleaned the streets while sweeping away gang violence.The Caribbean nation of Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, with 80 percent of the population living below the...

Bernanke Bashes Brown Over Regulatory Laxness

American Federal Reserve head Ben Bernanke let it rip over who he thought was to blame for the global banking meltdown: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In comments to the US Senate, Bernanke blamed Brown's...

2010 Will Not Be Good for the UK Says Report

Bankers Morgan Stanley believe the UK will experience currency flight and a full-blown debt crisis brought on by its mountains of bailout debt, and a political crisis resulting from its 2010 election. Called...

African Countries Re-branding for New Economic Role

With economic growth in Africa on the rise over the past decade, and significant investment flowing into the continent from countries like China, more and more countries are realising they need to re-brand to make...

Innovation Villages Tackling MDGs

With the deadline of 2015 fast approaching for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and many believing they are far from being achieved, concrete examples now exist of villages who are achieving...

New Appetite for Nutritious Traditional Vegetables

The global economic crisis and the global food crisis are forcing people to re-discover long-forgotten vegetables and other foods. These food sources often have another benefit: they are more nutritious as...

Kenyan Mobile Phone Innovations

A couple of enterprising Kenyan engineering students are showing how mobile phones are an inventor’s dream. Their two inventions – one a way to re-charge phones while bicycling, the other an aid for catching...

Bamboo Becomes Transport Option for the South

The sturdy bamboo plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo) is enjoying a revival around the world as a building material. A strong, fast-growing and highly renewable woody plant, it is becoming increasingly...