How Inclusive Businesses Can Tackle Poverty in China
The tide of China’s recent economic boom hasn’t lifted all boats. But inclusive businesses can help provide sustainable solutions for China’s vast impoverished population.
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The New Double Bottom Line
By combining the characteristics of small and nimble organizations with those that have successfully scaled, can we have our impact and our numbers too?
From Guessing to Knowing
We do best when we let communities define and direct their own “positive outcomes.”
The Freedom, Insecurity, and Future of Independent Work
With a growing part of the workforce earning a living independently, we need a new system that provides greater stability and security.
Facts Over Factions
How technology and data can form the basis for common-sense, bi-partisan policy reforms amid new uncertainties.
Across the Returns Continuum
Omidyar Network has built a framework for pursuing investment opportunities that takes into account not only firm-level impact but also market-level impact.
Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier
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
It’s a ripple effect: HELP fulfills Haitian students’ dreams of college, and then they take up the baton.
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Good to the Last Mile
Solving the problem of rural distribution in the developing world starts with following the time-honored model of local traders.
Judging “Poor” Choices
Disapproval of welfare recipients who use their benefits to buy “ethical” but costly items is widespread.