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.
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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.
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Dissonance, Harmony, and Compassion
Rose’s bold theory, which offers a new framework for urban planning, could benefit from equally comprehensive recommendations about how to implement it.
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China’s Many Economies
It can be tempting to overgeneralize about patterns in China’s economic development—even for scholars who acknowledge the country’s great diversity.
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Urban Crisis as Opportunity
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
Detroit’s experiences hint at a model where philanthropy and business routinely supplement and complement government.
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Building Economic Flywheels
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.