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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

For many mature economies like Japan and the US, the workforce will be older, healthcare costs will be higher, and it looks like we will see diminishing pension benefits. Advances in 3-D printing will change the cost and efficiency of making a lot of products and even body parts or organs! Only time will tell.

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11 Compelling TED Talks On Money

YoungUpstarts

It’s going to take a bit of time and even more money, but this former World Bank economist shares a strategy to forge a commodities market in Ethiopia, with the ultimate goal of creating a sustainable society. Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Ethiopian economics. Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature. Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally. The donations have most probably been utilized and the tourists are reluctant to visit Nepal. Source: Aljazeera).

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