Nestlé Makes Billions From Merely Boiling Water Amidst Global Water Scarcity Do you know how Nestlé makes billions from merely boiling water?With a growing world population, the demand for clean water remains on the rise especially in developing countries. For a multinational company like Nestle that makes it a priority to improve the quality of…
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Two Major Market Forces Driving the Nigeria Pay TV Industry There seems to be a looming “war” among Operators of digital satellite service providers in the country if recent happenings in the Industry is anything to go by. The race for market share and subscriber base in the industry is getting keener in an…
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Realizing Agenda 2030: Not Just More, But Better Financing Needed to Succeed How do the global goals crowd in international financing and inform domestic priorities? A new AidData report assesses the historical baseline for funding to the SDGs. September 2017 marked the two-year anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as…
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New Leaked Papers Show Tax Avoidance by Uber Rich Picture: ISTOCK The Paradise Papers leak of 13.4-million documents from more than 19 “secrecy jurisdictions” across the world will put pressure on authorities to tighten up tax avoidance laws. The Paradise Papers were obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the…
Details10 Lessons From the UK’s Public Register of the Real Owners of Companies by Nienke Palstra https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/10-lessons-uks-public-register-real-owners-companies/ The brutal murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta last week brings into stark relief the dangers faced by investigative journalists who courageously expose corruption and money laundering. Much of Daphne’s work focused on following…
DetailsAirbnb’s Biggest Rival in China Raises $300m to Fund Rapid Expansion Chinese startup Tujia gains a valuation of more than $1.5 billion as it looks to win over young Chinese holiday maker Airbnb’s biggest rival in China, Tujia, has raised $300m (£227m) to fund a rapid expansion and ride a surge in Chinese families taking holidays around the world.…
DetailsChinese Airbnb Rival Xiaozhu Just Raised $120 Million in New Funding [Photo: courtesy of a xiaozhu] Xiaozhu, the Chinese home-sharing site, just got a whole lotta cash in its bid to take on rival Airbnb in the massive Chinese market. According to travel biz site Skift, the company just got $120 million in funding courtesy of a round…
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Why It Makes Sense for Companies to Be Socially Responsible On this edition of The Bottom Line podcast, Rick Wartzman talks to CSRHub’s Cynthia Figge. BY RICK WARTZMAN In the old days—10 or 15 years ago, say—if businesses were interested in shining a light on data that showed how socially responsible they were, it was generally…
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31 Chinese Cities With Economies as Big as Countries JEFF DESJARDINS on November 3, 2017 at 12:25 pm SHARES1.0K 31 Chinese Cities With Economies As Big as Countries The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Gaining perspective on China’s monstrous economy isn’t always the easiest thing to do. With…
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Could Parts of Kenya Really Secede? Kenya is experiencing its worst political crisis in more than a decade, prompting some politicians to suggest extreme solutions – including the division of Kenya into two countries. A first presidential election on 8 August was annulled by the Supreme Court because of gross irregularities. The second, held on 26 October, was…
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