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A fresh face for South African wine

Ntsiki Biyela is South Africa's first black female winemaker, at just 28 years old. If you're in the Western Cape, head to the Stellekaya winery to sample her work.

Christine Bowers|
Education, Gender, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Competitiveness

Are states indispensable to markets?

In our informality debate, Keith Hart and others have been vigorously taking me to task for arguing that states are 'indispensable for making markets work on a large scale.' Keith…

Tom Kenyon|
Education, Gender, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Competitiveness

Female entrepreneurship on the rise

Chile has half a million female entrepreneurs, a marked increase in just the last 3 years. If current trends continue, as many women as men will be starting new businesses in Chile in 2010. These…

Christine Bowers|
Environment, Gender, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

McPassport to labor mobility

Today in Brussels, McDonalds Europe launched a new program that could bring tremendous labor flexibility to its 225, 000 European employees. The McPassport (I'm not making this up) makes its…

Christine Bowers|
Environment, Gender, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

Microfinance market to hit $20 billion

The consultancy Celent predicts that the microfinance market will grow from $11 billion now to $20 billion in 2008. The study finds that commercial banks are best equipped to extend microfinance…

Christine Bowers|
Environment, Gender, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector
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