News 2007

 

 

CWB News

 

June 27, 2007 - Meeting of the Advisory Board in Barcelona

 

June 7, 2007 - The founding members of CWB, Joan Oliver and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, are contributing to a breaking couple of film and book that will shed some light on what has made nowadays rich  countries rich and what should poor countries do to become richer.

 

April 4, 2007 - The CWB team travels to Ghana to interview candidates entrepreneurs willing to to get involved in business cooperation.

 

Jan 9th 2007. Constitution of the Advisory Board of CWB in Barcelona: Intel, KPMG, Telefonica and The Colomer Group join the CWB project.

 

January 2007. New York State Legislature passes an act incorporating the C.E.O.'s Without Borders Foundation.

 

 

Field News

 

Nov-Dec 2007

The Globalization Index 2007 Foreign Policy    

 

Oct 20, 2007

Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Economic Outlook International Monetary Fund  

 

Oct 18, 2007

The Digital Gap, More than a click to put Africa online

The Economist    

 

Oct 12, 2007 Indian Microfinance is attracting big business

Financial Times    

 

Oct 10, 2007

Tackling poverty a priority for Zoellick

Financial Times    

 

Sep 5, 2007

View of the day: Growth in Africa Financial Times  

 

Winter 2007

Molding the Middle Class Expanding, Kenya's Middle Class to Promote Growth

Harvard International Review  

 

2007 Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy Special Report

Financial Times    

 

Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems

Copenhagen Business School (November 2007)

 

 

Sep 5, 2007

View of the day: Growth in Africa

Financial Times

 

Molding the Middle Class Expanding Kenya's Middle Class to Promote Growth

Harvard International Review

 

Aug 20, 2007

COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: Africa becomes sunny proposition for funds

Financial Times  

 

Jul 19, 2007

Business in Africa, Looming difficulties The Economist  

The Millennium Challenge Corporation

Starting to give aid based on past results  

 

Jul 5, 2007

Are we nearly there yet?

The Economist  

 

May 4, 2007

Undercover Economist: What gives? Financial Times

 

 

The You Tube Effect - How a technology for teenagers became a force for political and economic change

Jan-Feb 2007

Foreign Policy

 

Ghana's 50th Independence anniversary- A good time to celebrate

February 2007

African Business

 

Business Meeting the Challenge

February 2007

African Business

 

Why Americans consider Microsoft No. 1

Jan 31st 2007

The Wall Street Journal

"Gate's philanthropy world shines on Microsoft's image

BP makes bottom 10"

 

100 Best Companies to work for 2007 -No. 1 Google

January 2007

Fortune Europe Edition

Jan 24th 2007

Financial Times

 

An important test of tolerance - Countries must be ready to accept larger numbers of migrants

Jan 24th 2007

Financial Times

 

Emerging economies must work hard to keep success story going

Jan 23th 2007

Financial Times

 

Blood debts - AIDS in China

Jan 20th-26th 2007

The Economist

 

Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization

Dec 13th 2006

The World Bank

"The number of people living on less than $1 a day could be cut in half, from 1.1 billion now to 550 million in 2030. However, some regions, notably Africa, are at risk of being left behind".

 

Education blossoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Dec 29th 2006

International Herald Tribune

 

Latin America's economies: A good year

Dec 19th 2006
From The Economist print edition

 

Africa's expatriates: Costly postings

Dec 13th 2006
From The Economist print edition

 

Business and Aids

Dec 1st 2006

Financial Times