Remixing Microfinance
Microfinance has tended to grow by faithful replication of well-established models; it is now time to experiment with hybrid models that bring together the best features of each.
Economic Development - Articles
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
Managing Our Way to Economic Decline, Revisited
Businesses worldwide are putting themselves at risk if they don’t respond effectively to the story of climate change.
Accelerating Job Creation Results
An innovative investment opportunity to increase results—not rhetoric—on quality job creation for all.
Impatient Capital
Highlights from the Clinton Global Initiative 2012.
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The Last Hunger Season
In The Last Hunger Season, Roger Thurow shares the experience of a year in Africa with four smallholder farmers.
Information as a Cash Crop
In East Africa, access to accurate, timely information is improving the livelihood of entrepreneurial farmers.
Trust and Technology
Together, the public and private sector can develop affordable and truly accessible banking solutions that benefit the world’s poor.
Smartphones and Mobile Payments
The penetration of smartphones in the US has caused jockeying for position in the new mobile payments space—can this happen in developing countries too?
Regionalizing US Food Systems
Exploring the role of regional models—takeaways from the University of Vermont’s first-ever food systems summit.
Rethinking Global Development Goals
The successors to the Millennium Development Goals must take advantage of the power of NGOs, companies, and technologically enabled citizens.