Avon, Amway…Africa? Can the direct sales agent model work for health goods?
Can the model made famous by the iconic "Avon Lady" work at the bottom of the pyramid? Distribution and uptake are some of the toughest nuts to crack for social enterprises marketing health products to the bottom of the pyramid (BoP). Even when affordable solutions for urgent health needs exist, [...]
Rotary International Convention Wrap-Up
By Dennis Wong, Co-founder Rotarian Action Group for Peace The time is right. The passion and actions for peace are more evident than ever. The Lisbon Convention theme “Harbor of Peace” greatly inspired us to look at the 2013-14 Rotary year with fresh and innovative approaches to the Rotary mission [...]
Systems of Alternative Defense for States
A country based on security through peace, nonaligned, useful to others, invulnerable, mediating relevant conflicts and traumas, high on empathy and equitable projects, only non-provocative arms, prepared to defend its borders and any part of its territory with military and nonmilitary defense and a Ministry of Peace; an attack is [...]
68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born—Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat
While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with the top-secret Trinity test. Its sixty-eighth anniversary is marked—or mourned, [...]
Japan’s Constitutional Changes Could Echo through Asia
Possible changes to Japan’s constitution may restrict some rights and expand its military, having implications regionally and even in America. They also raise a basic question: Should it be easy to change a constitution?