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HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2010
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround In their new book, The Big Ditch, Harvard Business School professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the complicated history of the Panama Canal.   |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010 |
The Panama Canal Gets a New Lane (Gallery) The Panama Canal is getting a $5.25 billion expansion program designed to keep the canal relevant in future maritime trade. |
TIME Europe
November 2, 2007
Tim Padgett |
Postcard: Panama In the past few months, scores of toddlers have died of malnutrition in villages around Panama, prompting U.S. millionaire Chuck Lucom to leave $50 million in his will for poor children's charities in that country. But will they ever see it? |
IDB America
June 2007 |
IDB Supports Social Protection Program in Panama The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $20,170,000 loan for the first phase of a program to strengthen the "Opportunity Network," Panama's poverty alleviation and reduction strategy. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Brad Reagan |
The Panama Canal's Ultimate Upgrade To handle booming maritime traffic and super sized ships, the engineering marvel called the big ditch is about to get a lot bigger. |
IDB America
February 2005 |
IDB Supports Community Investments in Panama Canal Watershed The $35 million project will promote gradual development in the 5,528-square-kilometer watershed, based on the sustainable use of its natural resources and with a high degree of participation of the local communities and agencies involved in various sectors. |
Outside
September 2004
Ben Ryder Howe |
An Impossible Place To Be Panama's mythic Darien Gap--a 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America--has swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land. |
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