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Youth unemployment and the Arab Spring

By Making It on 17 November, 2012

Three perspectives on a major challenge confronting the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Arab Spring, Dead Sea, éducation, Egypt, employment, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Facebook revolution, higher education colleges, imed drine, innovation, International Finance Corporation, Islamic Development Bank, Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women, Jordan’s University of Science and Technology, labour force, labour-intensive, Maharat Employment and Training Programme, Making It, Marrakech, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Abaran, Morocco, North afria, private sector, Queen Rania’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, Sarah Khalid, Saudi Arabia, social exclusion, Syria, Tawjihi, technology, training, Tunisia, unemployment, university, wider, Yemen, youth

From villains to visionaries

By Making It on 22 March, 2011

SABMiller’s Andy Wales argues that many companies now view corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and environmental compliance as increasingly important to business strategy

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2030 Water Resources Group, agriculture, Andy Wales, Asia, Big Business, Big Responsibility, book, British, business strategy, child labour, China Mobile, climate change, Coca-Cola, collaboration, communication, community, companies, Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, corporate social responsibility, credibility, development, ecology, efficiency, environmental compliance, expression, freedom, from villains to visionaries, Global Network Initiative, GNI, government, guidelines, Gulf of Mexico, human rights abuses, India, Industrial Development Organization, information, International Finance Corporation, intervention, local, magazine, Making It, market, McKinsey, media, Nestlé, ngos, Nike, non-governmental organizations, oil spills, opportunity, philanthropy, philosophy, policy, privacy, protection, public, resources, risk, rural areas, rural information network, SABMiller, South Africa, Standard Chartered, sustainability, technology, Unilever, United Nations, violation, water, World Economic Forum

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