Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
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The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Managing Technology for Social Change
There is a great deal of untapped potential in consistently applying existing technologies to support, and in fact, direct social change.
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What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
A Big Deal for Conservation
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Personal Attention Reduces Poverty
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
Safer Deliveries
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
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Realigning Health with Care
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.
Lifetime Inequality
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.