Ten Cities, Ten Projects
A report from the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute—how 10 cities are integrating green buildings and infrastructure with community action and civic entrepreneurship.
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
A report from the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute—how 10 cities are integrating green buildings and infrastructure with community action and civic entrepreneurship.
Does financial education training for children in Ghana help instill a culture of good decision-making? Take a reader survey and find out.
To change Africa’s future, we must change the mindset of young Africans in college today.
Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.
A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.
Local government strategic planning is needed to move cities forward at the necessary rate of reform.
The entire cocoa sector—exporters, NGOs, manufacturers, and governments—must help farmers boost their productivity and income.