Topic: africa

Makeover of Top Business Blog Looks Like a NextBillion Bucks

NextBillion.net - one of the Web’s top business blogs - today announced a new look intended to make it the go-to online resource for discussions about business-model development aimed at helping poor people.

Natural-resources extractive companies are profiting financially and socially when they consult with affected communities before and during the construction of projects.

The World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency today launch a partnership to combat illegal logging worldwide and clean up timber supply chains.

This policy brief provides natural resource policy makers and practitioners with an approach for evaluating how their policies and projects can support the emergence and consolidation of local democracy.

The BOP share of transportation spending is consistently high in Africa.

The median of annual BOP per household spending on health for Cameroon is $33.89.

In Cameroon, the ratio of average household ICT spending in the BOP3000 income segment to that in the BOP1000 segment is 27:1.

The African BOP includes 486 million people in 22 surveyed counties—95 percent of the population in those countries.

“Low income” is not “no income”.

Growing the Wealth of the World's Poor

The food crises of the present will seem as nothing to those of the future unless the world brings some urgency and intelligence to managing the planet’s nature-based assets.

A new WRI report presents new research on the importance of working with African legislatures for long-term social and environmental improvements.

On Whose Behalf: Legislative Representation and the Environment in Africa

This report presents the findings of research on critical incentives and disincentives to legislative representation in Africa and provides a number of policy and program recommendations.

Ecosystems provide a wealth of services to human populations, among them, disease regulation. But narrowly-focused development projects can threaten these ecosystems and put entire populations at risk.

Mapping Ecosystems and Climate Change in Africa

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, uses more than 300 satellite images to tell the story of Africa’s environmental transformation.

Protected Areas and Property Rights: Democratizing Eminent Domain in East Africa