“Batticaloa has no must-see sights…” begins a guidebook that shall remain nameless. A promising start to my year of supporting tourism development in Batticaloa—Batti for...
Category: Enterprise Development
A little less than a year ago, I was in Nairobi hosting a meeting between Acumen’s social enterprises and a group of global corporations interested in engaging more close...
Every Mozambican has an opinion about the natural gas deposits off the coast of Cabo Delgado. “I remember when Mozal came to town and all of Maputo thought they were goin...
“What will you do with the extra time you have?” Rachel Ishofsky, managing director of Innovation: Africa asked a woman whose village had just installed a solar powered w...
Growing up in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, I was surrounded by people. If my parents’ house wasn’t filled with relatives and friends, my parents and I were on our way to visit...
I have to be honest. I hardly even realized that 2014 was a Winter Olympic year until the regular prime time TV advertising campaign began. I should have known. Last May,...
Having grown up in Denver, Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood in the mountains where my dad and I spent hours doing nearly every kind of outdoor activity imaginable:...
India’s many roadways feature a diverse collection of roadside eateries, which produce some of the most delicious and fragrant Indian food ever imaginable. People from al...
Wandering through the old Fez Medina, where vendors of various goods peddle their wares, an older woodworker stands apart from the rest. In the middle of the hustle and b...
For a long time, I have focused my studies and work on the topic of sustainable business initiatives as a catalyst for social and economic development. But it wasn’t unti...