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Construction of the Central Corridor Light Rail line is affecting businesses in and around University Avenue. In St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood, ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 04:38
Communications move at astonishing speed along a global network (much of it underwater) owned wholly or in partnership by Tata Communications, one ...
- Added: May 28, 2012
- Length: 06:04
How can global health be improved? PepsiCo executive Derek Yach speaks about the positive changes corporations are making, and Professor Yanzhong H...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 15:51
How can global health be improved? PepsiCo executive Derek Yach speaks about the positive changes corporations are making, and Professor Yanzhong H...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 18:50
With the election of another American to head the World Bank, some are questioning the institution's legitimacy and role in the world. Since once-i...
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:57
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 3
Host Phalana Tiller talks with author Tom Rieger about his new book, Breaking the Fear Barrier. She also interviews Thomas Tighe, president and CEO...
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Prof.Stavros Xanthopoylos is the Executive Director of the on line and distant learning project at the Getulio Vargas institute in Rio de Janeiro, ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2011
- Length: 15:53
Angela Maria Kelley, of the Center for American Progress, talks frankly about the difficult practical and ethical questions surrounding U.S. immigr...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 20:40
Coals to Newcastle: Chopsticks made in Georgia are being exported to China
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2011
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
Instead of taking a leadership role, U.S. politicians merely "kicked the can down the road" to resolve the debt ceiling crisis, kicking off a U.S. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The Midwest is used to thinking of China as the source of many of our problems: it’s where many jobs and factories went. But in Toledo, China is no...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 05:15
The piece investigates the influence of inflation on spirit money in a Chinese temple.
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 03:31
Large international and US banks are financing the drug killings in Mexico by laundering billions of dollars in illicit drug money. Some banks a...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Everyone knows that the only real solution to piracy in the Indian Ocean is to stabilize Somalia and revive its economy, says Merchant Marine Capta...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 24:31
- Purchases: 1
With the rise in power of emerging markets and developing economies should the architecture of global economics change to reflect their market appr...
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
Interview with Dr. Susanne Jalbert who works around the world promoting peace by enabling equitable business development.
- Added: Dec 12, 2010
- Length: 45:22
Often the only chance coffee farmers have to be successful is to band together in groups called cooperatives. In eastern Uganda, there’s one man wh...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 06:33
In a new series, “Stuff that Works” we look at good ideas that solve a specific problem. All across West Africa, you can buy water on the street. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
If you can’t read or write, how can you sign important documents or cash your paycheck? In Afghanistan, you get a signet ring. Engravers carve r...
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 02:57
It’s monsoon season now in Nepal and that means few tourists. Street vendors in the capital of Kathmandu are accustomed to the slowdown in sales. ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 1
Camels are critical in parts of Africa and the Middle East. If you want to buy one, they’re not cheap and haggling over the price is a long establ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:24
June is the most popular month for weddings. And in Uruguay, like many places, it’s traditional to throw rice at the newlyweds. But at City Hall ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
