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Educated Cat of an Educated Household

Alleviating poverty through creating demand for education: A Post Guttenberg model Opening Questions: Can the concepts of education be divorced from the language it is taught in? Are all languages equipped to prepare students for the modern world? Should an attempt be made to create a new language of communication that is based on pictograms […]

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Ecological & Community-Based Tourism: Linkages and Leakages

This proposition has two major terms that should be discussed: 1. Experience The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment. Experience generally refers to expertise or rocedural know-ledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book learning. Practitioners and participants of activities such as tourism tend to stress […]

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Brain Picking

“It’s all about people.” Abrar Hasan CE, National Foods Abrar Hasan is the Chief Executive of National Foods, one of the largest multi-category food products companies in Pakistan. The company has graciously supported tbl since before it even sprang off the drawing board and is one of its 2 founder sponsors. And, for those three […]

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2010 Flood Impacts on Micro-Entrepreneurs

As is the case in most natural disasters, the group most dramatically impacted is the poor. The 2010 Floods in Pakistan have been no exception to this rule. The vulnerable, the borderline poor and those groups under the poverty line have been swept even further below the poverty line than they were before. These groups […]

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