NEWS
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July 2, 2008
WDI is currently accepting applications for the Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. The application deadline is July 18, 2008. The program, which will be run in fall 2008 and again in spring 2009, is designed for women across Rwanda who are interested in growing their small business or starting a business.
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June 17, 2008
A former WDI Global Impact Intern has been selected as a Fulbright scholarship winner. Sean Armstrong, who interned in Mongolia in summer 2006 for WDI, will be returning to the country to study the social and cultural perceptions of alcohol in Mongolia and its effect on treatment.
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Recent Events
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May 21, 2008
Two WDI Global Impact summer interns recently won first place in a business plan competition sponsored by Wal-Mart. Jeff LeBrun and Tony Gross, who are spending their summer in Mozambique as part of WDI’s Global Impact internships, took top honors in April in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s first Better Living Business Plan Challenge which provides business students from around the world an opportunity to invent sustainable products or business solutions.
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WDI in the News
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May 30, 2008
WDI Executive Director Robert Kennedy is quoted extensively in a Forbes.com article about seven men who have become billionaires in the outsourcing industry. The Globalization of Services (GoS) is one of WDI's research initiatives, and Kennedy, along with GoS Research Manager Ajay Sharma, is nearing completion of a book on the topic. Click here to read the article.
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