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Rome Reports - Former Swiss Guard tells his story in "The Pope and the CEO"
Dec 3, 2011
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Andreas Widmer is interviewed about his new book, The Pope and The CEO, on This is The Day on CatholicTV
Nov 1, 2011
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Andreas Widmer discusses his new book, The Pope and the CEO, with The Wall Street Journal
Oct 17, 2011
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Zenit - Learning Business From a Pope
Sep 29, 2011
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Michael Fairbanks writes for BBC World Challenge initiative, What Kind of Company Eradicates Poverty?
Sep 28, 2011
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Andreas Widmer speaks at the Zermatt Summit on the Common Good to Serve the Person
Jul 14, 2011
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The Boston Globe - John Paul set to join the ‘blessed’
May 2, 2011
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Pilot Catholic News - Local Catholics reflect on Pope John Paul's legacy
Apr 29, 2011
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Andreas Widmer speaks with PovertyCure on the Traits of an Entrepreneur
Mar 7, 2011
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National Catholic Reporter: Vatican to craft 'Sullivan Principles'
Mar 1, 2011
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The SEVEN Fund announces the grand prize winner of the "I Am an Entrepreneur" photography competition
Feb 28, 2011
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Andreas Widmer speaks about Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Africa
Feb 14, 2011
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Angus Loten, Wall Street Journal: Running a Business in a Disaster Zone
Feb 9, 2011
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Fox News Invites Michael Fairbanks to Comment on Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake
Jan 12, 2011
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2010 Templeton Foundation Report, including reflections of the Pioneers of Prosperity program
Dec 17, 2010
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Deroy Murdock writes for Scripps News, "America should follow free-market Rwanda"
Dec 9, 2010
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First Things, "I Row, God Steers," by Michael Novak and Elizabeth Shaw
Dec 6, 2010
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Entrepreneurship in Challenging Times, keynote address by Michael Fairbanks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Nov 19, 2010
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Rwanda’s Business Strategy: Informed choice, timely action, accountability, by Michael Brennan and Michael Fairbanks
Oct 10, 2010
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The New Times: The New Rwanda Prosperity and the Public Good, by Gloria A. Iribagiza
Sep 7, 2010
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SEVEN grantee Bailey Klinger, Businessweek, A Test to Identify Entrepreneurs
Aug 4, 2010
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The Crisis in Haiti: Are We Moving Fast Enough? Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Jul 29, 2010
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Michael Fairbanks, The Christian Science Monitor: A business solution to Haiti's poverty
Jul 12, 2010
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Andreas Widmer speaks with Al Cresta radio on Business, Development and Faith
Jun 18, 2010
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Michael Fairbanks, Washington Post's On Leadership: Luis Alberto Moreno: Business solutions to poverty
Jun 4, 2010
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Huffington Post: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo?
May 27, 2010
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Next Billion: Moving from Survival to Entrepreneurship in Haiti
May 17, 2010
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Huffington Post: Nothing Good Comes Out of Africa
May 3, 2010
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AlterPresse: Haiti-Reconstruction : Empathie versus sympathie!
Apr 20, 2010
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Huffington Post: Haitians Don't Deserve Our Sympathy
Apr 15, 2010
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Jamaica Observer: Bev Manley and her seers - Jean Lowrie-Chin
Apr 12, 2010
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NPR: National Review: Celebrating El Salvador Prosperity, by Deroy Murdock
Apr 5, 2010
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NPR: Michael Fairbanks speaks at the United Nations about Haiti's reconstruction effort
Apr 1, 2010
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Scripps News: Murdock: Latins entrepreneurial spirit burns bright
Apr 1, 2010
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MIT Innovations: The Backbone of a New Rwanda
Mar 24, 2010
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Andreas Widmer speaks at Thomas More College on Catholicism and Chivalry
Mar 19, 2010

Harvard Kennedy School Magazine: In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Mar 16, 2010
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The Journey: In the River They Swim: Essays from around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Mar 16, 2010
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Huffington Post: Communists are Back in Africa
Mar 8, 2010
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Value News Network: Michael Fairbanks knows what he is talking about and blogs it on HuffPo
Mar 8, 2010
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: All Entrepreneurship is Social
Mar 5, 2010
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The New Times: Rwanda's president leads an inspiring turn-around
Mar 2, 2010
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Washington Post: Rwanda's president leads an inspiring turn-around
Mar 1, 2010
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SEVEN Fund Announces Winners of "New Models of Development" Competition
Feb 23, 2010
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Achieving Results: A Priority for Latin America and the Caribbean BoP Agenda
Feb 12, 2010
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January 2010 "I Am an Entrepreneur" Contest Winners
Feb 3, 2010
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Prospect Magazine: For Richer, for Poorer
Jan 27, 2010
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Rebuilding Haiti: A Call to the Private Sector
Jan 21, 2010
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Interview with Andreas Widmer in Slovakia
Jan 20, 2010
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Rockets to Markets: Iqbal Quadir on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty in Afghanistan
Jan 14, 2010
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Andreas Widmer speaks at international economic conference, Bratislava
Dec 2, 2009
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Andreas Widmer speaks at X PRIZE's 'incentive2innovate' Conference
Jul 21, 2009
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Forum One: The Faces of International Development
May 20, 2009
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Integration is the Path to Economic Development: The 8 Domains
Dec 28, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Awards $10,000 in “In the River They Swim” Essay Competition
Nov 07, 2009
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Kagame’s advisors propel the economy
April 22, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Launches “I Am an Entrepreneur” Photography Competition
December 2, 2009
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Entrepreneurs Are the Key - Washington Times
November 22, 2009
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Global Entrepreneurship Policy Dialogues in Washington, DC
November 16, 2009
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Who Are You Looking At? The Jamaica Observer
November 11, 2009
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Introduction of Michael Fairbanks at the United Nations Association Annual Luncheon
October 23, 2009
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Los Ejes de la Prosperidad (The Axes of Prosperity)
September 29, 2009
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In the River They Swim enters its Second Edition
September 26, 2009

Murdock: Entrepreneurial Spirit Lights Path to Recovery
September 17, 2009
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Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Winner Gahaya Links Featured in Oprah Magazine
September 11, 2009
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The Pioneers of Prosperity 2009 Selects Region’s Top Entrepreneurs; Final Award Ceremony Hosted by the Prime Minister of Jamaica
September 11, 2009
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Entrepreneurs are In the River
September 11, 2009
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Pioneers of Prosperity
September 11, 2009
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Haitian Companies Compete in 2009 Pioneers of Prosperity Contest
September 11, 2009
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Pioneers of Prosperity Program to Select 2009 Regional Grand Prize Winners
September 10, 2009
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Innovative Business Contest Focuses on Caribbean
September 09, 2009
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Small Army, the firm who handled all of SEVEN's corporate identity design work, sponsors "Be Bold, Be Bald," in memoriam of Mike Connell. Mike was the senior creative partner on the SEVEN account, and lost his battle with cancer in 2007
September 01, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Awards Grant to Dr. Dambisa Moyo
September 1, 2009
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Andreas Widmer Reviews Forthcoming Book on Generosity
August 29, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Morality of Profit Project Now Accepting Submissions
August 26, 2009
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'Do a Thing' or Do the Right Thing?
August 19, 2009
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Man Over Machine
August 5, 2009
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OTF Group's Ken Hynes writes about Success Begins at Home:
thoughts on IMF assistance (Jamaica)
July 22, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Announces Second Annual Open Request for Proposals -
LOIs due October 15, 2009
June 22, 2009
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Aid Watch Reviews In the River They Swim
June 11, 2009
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President Paul Kagame with winners of SEVEN Fund's Entrepreneurial President
Essay Competition
June 3, 2009
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In the River They Swim launch event covered in the Boston Globe
June 2, 2009
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Michael Fairbanks Visits Campus As Guest Speaker for PA’s Africa Week
May 15, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Announces the VINE Competition Winners
May 18, 2009
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President Kagame of Rwanda Writes in Financial Times about Enterprise Solutions
to Poverty, Mentions In the River They Swim
May 07, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Awards Student Research Grants Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Projects Conducted in Ten Countries
April 26, 2009
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2009 - 10 "New Models of Development" Essay Competition
April 26, 2009
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Overlapping Fringes Creating Value Through Interdisciplinary Thinking
March 26, 2009
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Fast Company article "Rwanda Rising" Quotes Essay from In the River They
Swim and mentions Michael Fairbanks
March 23, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Essay Competition Winners Featured in Templeton Report
March 4, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Announces Winners of 2008-2009 Essay Competition
February 19, 2009
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Michael Fairbanks Writes on How to Unlock Prosperity
February 18, 2009
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SEVEN Fund Featured in Templeton 2008 Capabilities Report
February 16, 2009
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SEVEN Fund VINE Finalists Selected
February 6, 2009
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Michael Fairbanks is interviewed on Rwanda by The Independent
January 28, 2009
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Solutions for a Sustainable World discusses Michael Fairbanks interview on mobile technology
January 28, 2009
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Consumer Electronics Association's publication Vision features interview with Michael Fairbanks on "Developing Nations Seek Entrepreneurs"
January 28, 2009
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Innovation for Emerging Economies
January 28, 2009
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New York Times Op-Ed Column Quotes Michael Fairbanks
December 24, 2008
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SEVEN Fund Awards Grant: Improving Flows of Foreign Capital to the
Microfinance Industry
December 15, 2008
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Technology and Emerging Countries
December 12, 2008
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What is Free Press in Rwanda?
December 12, 2008
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Film Competition Finalists Announced
December 3, 2008
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2008 Africa Pioneers of Prosperity Featured in BusinessWeek Online
November 23, 2008
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Michael Fairbanks blogs about 2008 Legatum Africa Pioneers of Prosperity Awards
November 18, 2008
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Nov 15 – Nov 30th: Vote now in the Cinéma Prospérité Competition
November 15, 2008
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Does the free market corrode moral character?
November 16, 2008
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Tech and Emerging Countries Panelists Announced
November 11, 2008
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Integr8 IT stands on global stage
November 3, 2008
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SEVEN Fund contributes to new book, In the River They Swim: Essays from
Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
October 8, 2008
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Improving Flows of Foreign Capital to the Microfinance Industry
Request for Proposals (RFP) Prize to be Awarded – November 15, 2008
October 1, 2008
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CheckBook Development
September 23, 2008
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Michael Fairbanks speaks on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
at Republican National Convention
September 8, 2008
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$1,000,000 Legatum FORTUNE Technology Prize
August 20 , 2008
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Self reliance and the entrepreneur: Michael Fairbanks
August 7 , 2008
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In Memoriam Sir John Templeton, 1912-2008
July 18 , 2008
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The SEVEN Fund $50k VINE Project: Developing
Investment Indicators for Emerging Market SMEs
July 15 , 2008
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Telling Stories Over Stats: The SEVEN Film Competition
May 20, 2008
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Pioneers of Prosperity Documentary
May 6, 2008
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The SEVEN Fund announces Cinéma Prospérité
May 2, 2008
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Lucky S.E. VEN, Mount Allison University News
April 30, 2008
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Interview with Michael Fairbanks, Connexio Magazine
May, 2008
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Social Equity Venture Fund gives award to Thomas Aquinas College student
April 8, 2008
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Think Change India- The fine line: New research on what defines successful entrepreneurs
March 28, 2008
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Scaling Entrepreneurs at the BOP - Nextbillion.net
March 27, 2008
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SEVEN Fund Mini-Grant Competition Winners Selected
March 17, 2008
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The SEVEN Fund announces The WHY Prize, a first of its kind challenge.
March 7, 2008
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SEVEN Fund has announced its 2008-2009 Student Essay Competition.
March 7, 2008
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Johnson School's Mark Milstein to study U.S. military's economic efforts in war zones
February 26, 2008
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SEVEN Fund Awards $50,000 in Enterprise Based Solutions to Poverty Essays
Competition
February 7, 2008
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$400,000 in Grants Awarded to Enterprise Based Solutions to Poverty Researchers
February 7, 2008
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Brown student Chloe Lutts Column 1/30/08: Why are we here?
January 30, 2008
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Michael Fairbanks interviews President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (Video)
Part 1  |   Part 2

LEGATUM Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards - Ceremony 2007(Video)
Ceremony 2007

Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Firm Scoops $100,000 Prize
The New Times (Kigali), 3 Dec 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Rugasira's Coffee Wins $50,000 Prize
New Vision (Kampala), 3 Dec 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Eleven Firms in Final Innovative SME Awards
AllAfrica.com, 24 Nov 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize Winners Announced (Press Release)
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A Templeton Conversation: Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?
I Thought So... But now I don’t. There is that threadbare maxim: If you hold a hammer
in your hand, every problem looks like a nail. What happens, then, when all we
hold in our hand is a checkbook? Checkbook Development suggests that poor
nations cannot build the skills necessary to solve their own problems. There is,
however, a notable exception.
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Enterprise-Based Solutions to Poverty Inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP)
Foreign economic and government programs have spent billions of dollars during
the past five decades to alleviate the high number of people living in poverty. No
country has been lifted out of poverty as a result of these efforts, but the mindset
remains the same: aid programs are the key to poverty alleviation.
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The SEVEN Fund has extended the submission deadline of its inaugural
Student Essay Competition to January 20, 2008

The SEVEN Fund has extended the submission deadline of its inaugural Student
Essay Competition. The competition will award three (3) undergraduate student
prizes of US $10,000 each and one (1) graduate student prize of US$20,000. The
new submission deadline is January 20, 2008 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Due to multiple requests to extend the deadline to allow participants to complete
end of semester obligations, the SEVEN Fund will extend the deadline to allow for
maximum participation. The date of the announcement of winners will remain the
same – February 7, 2008. Any student who has submitted an essay that wishes to
edit their submission is hereby invited to do so.
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