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What can music festivals teach us about toilet technology?
Vanuatu's sacred drink
Could the traditional beverage known as kava boost Vanuatu's struggling economy?
Should workers be offered unlimited paid leave?
Some employers are letting their workers take as much time off as they like.
Has 3D printing met the hype?
Are we any closer to the new industrial revolution promised a few years ago?
Are stock buybacks a corporate scam?
When corporations buy back shares is it for the good of the economy, or themselves?
Helping Africa feed itself
Supporting Africa's homegrown food-growing capacity
The singing president who disappeared
Turkmenistan's president mysteriously vanishes, while his country faces economic crisis
Ecommerce in Africa - still finding its way
Will online retailers overcome a lack of infrastructure and trust to conquer Africa?
The challenges facing Syrian refugees in Turkey
Are Syrians now paying the price of Turkey's economic slowdown?
Why not buy Greenland?
What Trump's shock proposal tells us about sovereignty and Arctic geopolitics
How can women take charge of their finances?
Is the wealth management industry still too geared towards male clients?
Dying for insulin in the USA
Why do American diabetics have to pay so much for this life-saving drug?
Can we trust Rwanda's data?
Dodgy statistics and aid money in Africa
Hollywood vs Netflix
How are movie producers making money in the age of online streaming?
Air pollution gets personal
Can a greater understanding of how poor air quality harms us help us tackle this problem?
The hipster company that wants to save the world
Is WeWork an exciting new tech firm, or just an over-priced office rental business?
Brand Britain and Brexit
What the rest of the world makes of the UK's Brexit crisis
Can technology read minds?
The business of brain data
The world is running out of sand
A global construction boom is fuelling an illegal trade in sand used to make concrete
Tackling the male fertility crisis
Tech start-ups are finally giving attention to the steady global decline in sperm counts
Going after Google
US state authorities fear the search giant has too much power over what we buy
The cannabidiol craze
The cannabis extract is finding its way into soaps and cosmetics, but is it just a fad?
The cost of sending money home
Why it's time to start paying attention to the global remittances industry
Africa's mobile credit revolution
Will the roll out of online lending stimulate economic boom or just a credit binge?
Whom should the corporation serve?
Should shareholders come first? Or employees, customers, and society in general?
Trading tinned fish and powdered milk
How economies spring up in extreme places from refugee camps to prisons
Robot race cars and AI
What robots driving cars can tell us about artificial intelligence.
The future of Facebook
What next for the social media giant?
Climate Action: Greta Thunberg's mission
The teen activist on how she aims to get governments to take action on climate change
Climate Action: Uninhabitable Earth
Just how bad will it get if the world fails to get to grips with climate change?
Climate Action: The moral imperative
What is our ethical duty to eliminate carbon emissions?