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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Egypt is highly dependent on oil production and the economy is very sensitive to the oil price fluctuations. Soon after the adoption of the ‘’Marshall Plan’’ it became clear that the workforce locally does not necessarily possess the skills the business needs. The unemployment rate is currently 15.4%.

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Please Help My Friend Colin Recover His Kidnapped Children #noorramsay

Both Sides of the Table

His wife created forged passports in a fake name and kidnapped his two children by illegally flying back to Cairo on Egypt Air. Colin has now won visitation rights in an Egyptian court, but Mirvat didn’t show up at the legally required meeting day / time in Egypt. Mirvat’s family is well connected in Egypt.

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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

YoungUpstarts

Drayton spreads out his social entrepreneurship expertise in other organizations as well, working as a chairman at Community Greens, Youth Venture, and Get America Working! He would leave Europe and move back to Egypt, founding the development initiative SEKEM (Ancient Egyptian for “vitality from the sun”).

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

China, South Africa, Egypt. The green intensity drags our eyes to handful of cells we need to look first. I like the option to slice by inequality index rating of the country ( GINI rating ). It is a little surprising at first glance that countries with very high inequality move to the right. I like the last option the best.

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