Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
There is a great deal of untapped potential in consistently applying existing technologies to support, and in fact, direct social change.
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
The misalignment between the expansive goal of “health” and a cramped definition of “care” has cost the United States untold lives and treasure. Yet realignment is in reach.
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.