Accelerating Job Creation Results
An innovative investment opportunity to increase results—not rhetoric—on quality job creation for all.
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Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
The Tricky Business of Cultural Change
If real, radical cultural change is a goal of the Clinton Global Initiative, then real rich people are part of the problem and fundamental to the solution.
Life Bonds: Linking Returns to Life Outcomes
Proposed new life bonds represent one potential mechanism for leveraging the power of financial markets to reduce poverty.
Information as a Cash Crop
In East Africa, access to accurate, timely information is improving the livelihood of entrepreneurial farmers.
Trust and Technology
Together, the public and private sector can develop affordable and truly accessible banking solutions that benefit the world’s poor.
The New Chinese Underclass
Due to the rapid growth of its cities, China's middle class is growing—but so is its urban poor.
Smartphones and Mobile Payments
The penetration of smartphones in the US has caused jockeying for position in the new mobile payments space—can this happen in developing countries too?
Social Media Won’t Drive a New Economy
Social media investments will not drive a new economy powerful and pervasive enough to employ millions of people.
Elderly Care and the Future of Social Innovation
Until successful new models for senior care are developed, all other forms of social innovation will be constricted.