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Social Entrepreneurship in India – Changing the life of the poor

India has the world's second largest labour force of 516.3 million people and although over the past decade, hourly wage rates in India have more than doubled, the latest World Bank report states that approximately 350 million people in India currently live below the poverty line. Social entrepreneurs can help alleviate these issue by helping those less fortunate towards a worthwhile life. Read on

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The Right Livelihood Award - The Alternative Nobel Prize

In 1980, the journalist and professional philatelist Jakob von Uexkull felt that the Nobel Prize categories were too narrow in scope and too concentrated on the interests of the industrialised countries to be an adequate answer to the challenges now facing humanity. Read on

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Land and Conflict

Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless. Since decades, peasants and indigenous people all around the Globe fight for their land-right. Although most people spend a large part of their lives in places where food is produced, they rarely own their own land. Read on