From the Lab to the Land: Disseminating Technologies for the Poor
Collaboration across sectors supports the scaling up of product dissemination and an organizations’ goals of improving the lives of low-income citizens.
Economic Development - Articles
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
Better Vision for the Poor
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?
Welfare Works Better than Bootstraps
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.
More than Beans
Sustainable Harvest grows a new supply chain.
In India, Banking of Self-Service
New micro-deposit ATMs are being deployed to reach India's unbanked.
Building Bridges
Ending poverty is beyond the reach of any single sector or actor
Manish Bapna
Manish Bapna, managing director of World Resources Institute, is helping China manage its environmental problems.
Dark Skies After All
A look at several troubling developments in microfinance.
Back to the Future: Will We See a New Generation of Nonprofit Organizations in 2011?
There are new leaders coming into the nonprofit sector with ideas that have the potential to change the way social change happens. It’s time to ask some new questions.
Market-Minded Development
Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?