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		<title>The Senior Population Boom: How will the world care for its seniors?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aging in Place in China and Vermont By Julia Hayton, AHI In the coming decades, the world will experience a dramatic rise in the overall population of seniors and the percentage of the population that consists of seniors. These seniors &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-senior-population-boom-how-will-the-world-care-for-its-seniors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=231&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scaling social enterprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts? AHI Ip Social enterprises scaling growth and capital v0.4 101215 More to come shortly. Visit our main site &#38; contact us. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=228&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Susu &#8211; a culture of saving in Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Evans Essienyi, AHI West Africa Associate In Ghana, “susu” refers to the process of putting money by. Like many emerging economies, Ghana has a less developed financial market and an exclusive credit industry; “susu” is one of the few &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/susu-a-culture-of-saving-in-ghana/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=197&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land title and affordable housing development in Africa &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Evans Essienyi, AHI West Africa Associate Last week I asked the question: Is the ‘clean and clear title’ and freehold as understood in the global North truly a prerequisite for a good affordable housing ecosystem? And what are the &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/land-title-and-affordable-housing-development-in-africa-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=193&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land title and affordable housing development in Africa – Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Evans Essienyi, AHI West Africa Associate - in need of reform, or simply a more nuanced understanding? Affordable housing is an emerging priority in Africa. In particular, Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing fundamental and profound changes in demographics as the &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/land-title-and-affordable-housing-development-in-africa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=178&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaynor Asquith, 1952 – 2011: AHI MEE report co-author</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Janaki Blum, AHI Staff Gaynor discussing the report she co-authored at NHC in Washington DC. We are sad to announce the death on Saturday, November 12th, 2011, of Gaynor Asquith, a close friend of AHI and co-author of the much-requested landmark &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/gaynor-asquith-1952-%e2%80%93-2011-ahi-mee-report-co-author/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=169&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Society and Nongovernment Organization development in Brazil: can a powerful tradition shift to embrace new models of social business and investment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gláucio Gomes, Institutional Development Manager for Atelié de Idéias, Brazil Friendship Park in Vitoria, Brazil: Volunteers turn garbage into gardens under the program &#8220;Good Effort &#8211; Valuing the place where we live&#8221; conducted by Ateliê de Ideias, Community Forum &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/civil-society-and-nongovernment-organization-development-in-brazil-can-a-powerful-tradition-shift-to-embrace-new-models-of-social-business-and-investment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=163&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On MENA affordable housing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Janaki Blum, AHI Staff The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked AHI&#8217;s MENA Advisor, Maysa Sabah Shocair, to talk about the lack of affordable housing in the  Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by for their October 1 news video Shortage of &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/on-mena-affordable-housing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=154&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AHI speaks on upgrading slums</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janaki Blum, Affordable Housing Institute Staff This week, AHI Founder David Smith is at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he is invited to kick-off the new Fall lecture series &#8220;Urban Innovation&#8221; with his talk Turning Slums into Assets on Monday, September &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/ahi-speaks-on-upgrading-slums/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=148&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nairobi Slum Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Janaki Blum, AHI staff AHI was privileged to work in the recent past with Slum Dwellers International (SDI) and organizations in the Sinai area of Nairobi, Kenya, to help residents structure a plan to buy land so that they could gain security of tenure and the ability to improve &#8230; <a href="http://ahiglobal.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/nairobi-slum-disaster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahiglobal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585300&amp;post=143&amp;subd=ahiglobal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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