Digging for Ponies
Two years after the spectacular failure in the financial markets, it’s getting even more difficult to look on the bright side.
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Questions to Address Youth Unemployment
We need to spur fresh thinking in this field even as we test and evaluate diverse approaches that promote youth economic empowerment in developing countries.
Banking on Change
Express Credit Union reopens in Seattle to serve the unbanked, underbanked, and want-to-be-banked.
Review
Survival of the Deviant
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
The Agency of African Girls and Women
Women are contributing to Africa’s growth surge. We cannot afford to overlook their potential and agency.
Podcast
Jessica Jackley - International Development Through Microfinance
Jessica Jackley is cofounder of Kiva.org, the nonprofit microfinancing website that allows people to promote international development and break the cycle of poverty by lending as little as $25 to a specific third-world entrepreneur. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Jackley talks about how she is revolutionizing philanthropy and inspiring a new generation of philanthropists through technology.
Connectivity for Youth
“Digital citizenship” and connectivity are opening up new avenues to tap into the creativity, inventiveness and enterprise of youth to create educational and economic opportunities.
New Frontiers of Financial Inclusion in Africa
Will mobile telephones become the new super highway to connect the poor to the financial grid?