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  2. Equal Exchange - Wikipedia

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    Equal Exchange is a for-profit, Fairtrade worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, bananas, avocados, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Founded in 1986, it is the oldest and largest Fair ...

  3. Angola Debt and Stock Exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Angola Debt and Stock Exchange ( Bodiva; in portuguese: Bolsa de Dívida e Valores de Angola) is a stock exchange in Angola, which is based in Luanda. First announced in 2006, [1] the Stock Exchange was hoping to open during the first quarter of the 2008 fiscal year, [2] though in August 2008 Aguinaldo Jaime said that the launch would be "a ...

  4. Unequal exchange - Wikipedia

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    Unequal exchange is used primarily in Marxist economics, but also in ecological economics (more specifically also as ecologically unequal exchange), to describe the systemic hidden transfer of labor and ecological value from poor countries in the imperial periphery (mainly in the Global South) to rich countries and monopolistic corporations in the imperial core (mainly in the Global North) due ...

  5. Agnes Fogo - Wikipedia

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    Agnes Fogo. Known for. Kidney disease research. Scientific career. Institutions. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Agnes B. Fogo is a professor of renal pathology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center .

  6. Harry R. Jacobson - Wikipedia

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    Jacobson was born on June 21, 1947 in Freising, Germany, a town in upper Bavaria north of Munich. [1] He immigrated to the United States in 1951, and his family settled in the South Side of Chicago. [2] He spent his childhood in Chicago and received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1969. [3]

  7. Online learning in higher education - Wikipedia

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    Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...

  8. Learning - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. [1] The ability to learn is possessed by humans, non-human animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants. [2] Some learning is immediate, induced by a single event (e ...

  9. Learning Ally - Wikipedia

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    Learning Ally, previously named Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), is a non-profit volunteer organization operating nationwide in the United States. It produces and maintains a library of educational accessible audiobooks for people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment , dyslexia , or other disabilities .