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Entrepreneurial Lessons from an Egyptian (who inspired Bob Dylan)
Since I was in Cairo this past week, the only thing that caught my eye was Egyptian entertainer Umm Kulthum. Umm is hailed as the Arab World’s – not just Egypt’s – greatest singer. She sells nearly a million records every year. On the first Thursday of every month, Radio Cairo plays her songs. Not [...]
It’s the investors, stupid
Entrepreneurship is hot in the Middle East. And that was long before President Obama announced last June in Cairo that he would host a summit on entrepreneurship, which will take place April 26-27, 2010 in Washington DC. Arabs are abuzz about getting their ideas for new businesses off the ground. Habib Haddad, founder of Yamli [...]
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Where entrepreneurship is the dream and the NBA is just the stepping-stone
I have no interest in basketball. But when I heard that fellow Brooklynite and former New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury landed in China this week to play for the Shanxi Dragons, I fiendishly tore through the sports pages to find out why. Leaving the NBA for a foreign league is, I’m told, a [...]
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A Savings Revolution Sparked (Already…)
It is time for the global microsavings movement Nick Kristof. In this column Kristof talks about “one of the ugly secretes of global poverty” which “is that a good deal of suffering is caused not only by low incomes but also by bad spending decisions.” That’s because most people in the developing world don’t have [...]
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The Sugar Palm Fairy
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA, — Kethana Dunnet was just being a supportive wife. When her husband Bruce agreed to volunteer for the New Zealand government in Kethana’s native Cambodia, she left her job with New Zealand Air and joined him. After a few weeks she became restless. That’s when she decided to become an entrepreneur. Cambodia [...]
On poverty alleviation: stop the entrepreneurial madness