Economic Development
New School Economics
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
According to a new analysis, most of the world’s poor no longer live in the poorest countries.
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
The founder of the Kashf Foundation argues that microfinance can improve the lives of Pakistan’s next generation.
Social enterprises have taken up the challenge of developing markets for newly designed cook stoves in India.
I hope that as long as there is poverty in our country, there will be a Cincinnati Works’ model that can help families escape poverty.
Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people who need them. Why haven’t any of the organizations succeeded on a large scale?
In Britain, the social safety net allows people who fall into poverty to pull themselves out. Americans who become poor are more likely to stay that way.
Politically radical social workers didn’t expect to be working in a bank any more than white-collar bankers expected to be holding meetings in a crowded public market.