Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier

By Michael McCreless 4

At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras.

HELP for Haiti

By Liz Carlisle

It’s a ripple effect: HELP fulfills Haitian students’ dreams of college, and then they take up the baton.

Economic Development

Good to the Last Mile

By Daniel Tomlinson 1

Solving the problem of rural distribution in the developing world starts with following the time-honored model of local traders.

Judging “Poor” Choices

By Corey Binns

Disapproval of welfare recipients who use their benefits to buy “ethical” but costly items is widespread.

Dissonance, Harmony, and Compassion

Review By Richard Sinkoff 3

Rose’s bold theory, which offers a new framework for urban planning, could benefit from equally comprehensive recommendations about how to implement it.

Winter 2017

China’s Many Economies

Review By Michael Pettis

It can be tempting to overgeneralize about patterns in China’s economic development—even for scholars who acknowledge the country’s great diversity.

Winter 2017

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Urban Crisis as Opportunity

By James M. Ferris & Elwood M. Hopkins

Detroit has become a source of inspiration and solutions for other challenged American cities and even other municipalities looking for innovative new models of urban governance.

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Inventive Approaches to Urban Problem Solving

By Elwood M. Hopkins

Detroit’s experiences hint at a model where philanthropy and business routinely supplement and complement government.

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Building Economic Flywheels

By Amy Liu

Concentrating investments along key corridors in the Motor City can generate market activity, but more effort must be made to create self-sustaining momentum that propels communities toward broader prosperity.