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You can’t turn on the TV or open the newspaper these days without seeing something about South Africa. That’s because the World Cup – the biggest ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 04:35
Mexico City is, in many ways, an old-fashioned place. Vendors still ply neighborhood streets, issuing a variety of calls to lure customers from th...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 03:27
In India about 10 million people work as street vendors. A fourth of them are women, and that number is rising. Women vendors face many obstacles...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 2
Tragedy. Hopelessness. Devastation. A lot of words have been used to describe Haiti after the earthquake, almost all of them negative. But Gran...
Bought by WBEZ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
In Hong Kong's downtown financial district, it’s not the well-to-do bankers who earn the most respect. It’s the people who shine their shoes. The...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 02:10
Haiti is in the middle of a massive clean up effort. Piles of rubble from buildings that collapsed in the earthquake over a month ago are finally ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:55
Everyone’s heard of fortunetellers. But have you ever heard of fortune-telling parrots? You can find them in Pakistan…telling fortunes, and helpi...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Cairo is one of the noisiest cities in the Middle East. There’s the non-stop traffic, the calls to prayer blasting through loudspeakers, and aggre...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 03:30
Zimbabwe’s economic woes have driven many into self-employment. Some men have gone into the cart pusher business. As the country’s economy deteri...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 04:08
In Mali, the practice of 'Dama" is one example of how gift giving is an important part of cultures, throughout West Africa, India, and beyond.
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Dec 29, 2009
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 1
In the village of Kamoria in northern Sierra Leone women sell tree trunks, known as sticks, to keep their families alive. They spend 18 hours a da...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Baraka Yakubu, who you heard about in the previous story, came to the U.S. from Northern Ghana where ethnic tensions have led to violent conflict. ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 04:15
Street vendors are an important part of Shanghai’s vibrant local economy. But the vendors are constantly on the run from authorities who want to c...
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 04:41
When we hear about young women working as prostitutes, we usually find out pimps and traffickers lured them into the business. It’s hard to imagin...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 1
For thousands of people in Africa, every single day brings the same question: will we have enough food to feed the children today? Will we have a...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 06:25
- Purchases: 1
Got milk? A street vendor in Guatemala City does. And it's fresh. Really fresh. Trevor Snapp tell us about it, in the latest installment of our...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 05:31
Despite recent violence, people in Pakistan are getting on with their lives and going about their daily business. Or their nightly business, if yo...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 05:26
Getting around in Beirut, Lebanon is a challenge. Traffic is heavy and the options are few. If you're a woman it can be even harder. Public taxi...
- Added: Oct 16, 2009
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 2
The trial of the former President of Liberia resumed in The Hague last week. He is the first African leader to be tried before an international tr...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 03:29
The World Bank announced a few days ago it was funneling $22 million to Zimbabwe. That’s the first injection of capital to Zimbabwe from the World...
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 02:59
The decreasing value of the dollar is just one of many negatives for the U.S. economy. But in some areas of the country, like Buffalo, NY, the drop...
Bought by WRVO Public Media
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
After 60 years in business, Moosehead Manufacturing Company is closing up shop because of overseas competition.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
Producer Frank Browning visits an Irish town where economic prosperity has locals wondering how to move forward while keeping their traditions intact.
- Added: Jul 06, 2006
- Length: 10:36
A Peruvian farming community weighs the risks of entering the market.
Bought by WBEZ and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: May 09, 2006
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
A Zapatista co-op sells organic coffee on the growing global "solidarity market."
Bought by KZSC, PRX, KUER, WCOM, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Apr 05, 2005
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 11
