According to traditional theories of development, the path to prosperity for emerging economies is to follow in the tracks of developed nations. The theory goes that if countries wish to become ...

WASHINGTON, April 11-- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary by Erol Yayboke, deputy director and senior fellow, project on prosperity and development, ...

Technology upgrades don't have to be incremental journeys from version 1.0 to 2.0. Here are three examples of innovations that have let specific demographic groups ‘leapfrog’ standard tech for ...

MOBILE phones are frequently held up as a good example of technology's ability to transform the fortunes of people in the developing world. In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, ...

When construction of the Bara Imambara began in Lucknow, it was a year of famine. Reportedly, the Nawab of Awadh hired one batch of workers for construction during the day and another for construction ...

It's official. We've been in a recession for more than a year now, and it does not look like things will improve in the short term. As the macroeconomic situation worsens, marketers find themselves ...

Thousands of years ago, the blacksmith led a technological leap in sub-Saharan Africa. West Africa’s Nok culture, for example, switched from using stone tools to iron around 1500BC. Imagine an ...