Raising the Standards for Development Finance
A look at proposed changes to the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguard policies, and where to set the bar on managing risk.
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
A look at proposed changes to the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguard policies, and where to set the bar on managing risk.
Through the Workers Lab, union leaders aim to nurture “audacious ideas” that might reinvent the US labor movement.
Creating an ethically sourced apparel company in West Africa is hard enough, but when Ebola strikes, the challenges become almost insurmountable.
The relatively simple act of providing African girls with the money they need to stay in school has achieved significant results.
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
Are startup accelerators the future for women and girls?
A program developed in India to provide marketplace literacy aims for impact in Illinois
A diagnostic framework for shaping innovation and scaling strategies.
A new report on California highlights how human well-being is a more relevant gauge of progress than economic metrics.