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While small-scale aid and charities are doing important work in Africa, they are not able to provide the jobs that are necessary for long-term growth.
Google China-Top100.cn arrival on the Chinese web is set to mark a new precedent in the age of downloadable music. It’s likely it will also drive the pirates to new […]
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Dambisa Moyo on how the U.S. makes bad leaders worse
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Dambisa Moyo discusses the impact of reducing African aid budgets.
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“Aid disenfranchises Africans…[they] cannot hold their governments accountable,” says author Dambisa Moyo.
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A conversation with Dambisa Moyo, former Goldman Sachs economist and author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa
Big Think recently approached five leading economists for their best predictions on when we will be out of the mess known as our national economy. Watch for their commentary in […]
Diogenes is not a name regularly invoked in New York State politics, but the original father of cynicism re-appeared in Albany Senate chambers recently, in the form of a political […]
In an effort to reach out to a younger audience and shed some of its bastion-of-the-cold-war image, NATO has launched a new web effort in advance of the organization’s summit […]
The basketball and hip-hop culture term "dunkadelic" was created in 1997. Should the hoops and hip-hop inspired term be applied to the American English dictionary?
The basketball and hip-hop culture fusion born in 1984 that is known now as The "Dunkadelic-Era" In America, 1984-Present. The "Dunkadelic-Era" is celebrating its 25th Anniversary during the year 2009 (1984-2009).
Internet addiction is a social ill that saps the potential of youth, drives men from their wives, and reduces worker productivity. But now there’s a cure. China combats internet addiction […]
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Governments across the world are growing and changing like never before. The question now is how companies can learn to navigate new regulations and capitalize on new opportunities. From bailouts […]
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Today’s leading business and economic minds offer experience-based strategies for finding success in perilous times. From cost-cutting, to innovation, to business psychology, Big Think experts have global solutions to the […]
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Exponential changes to technology have always presented opportunities and risks. Today’s businesses need the best ideas for how to leverage technology to compete and grow. Big Think technology experts share […]
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Dan Ariely on why it’s so difficult to be rational.
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Today Sara Horowitz, Founder and Executive Director of the Freelancer’s Union, was in the Big Think studio discussing labor issues, single payer health care, and fundamental changes to capitalism that […]