Let Refugees Be Their Own Solution
Better policies in host countries can enable refugees to rebuild their lives and contribute to host economies.
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Innovative public sector policies and programs (more)
Social Enterprise Is Not Social Change
Solving systemic social problems takes people, politics, and power—not more social entrepreneurship.
Reproductive Health Care by Mail
It is time to give US women the convenience and autonomy of birth control and abortion pills that women elsewhere enjoy.
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Organizations for All
When the rights and benefits of formal organization became available to all, it unleashed a new social order and greater economic dynamism.
Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development
Viewing social and economic development as a series of interpersonal interactions can help us understand why development outcomes sometimes diverge from policy goals, and how gendered interactions shape social and economic development.
Want Your Big Bet to Pay Off? Don’t Forget About Government Capacity
Why global philanthropists can no longer afford to overlook the importance of supporting government capacity in developing countries—and what they can do about it.
Pay for Systems Change
The real promise of pay-for-success lies in changing how government funds social services.
The Mantra of Meritocracy
Our ongoing obsession with the myth of meritocracy is now spreading to education systems in developing economies with pernicious effects.
To Base US Policy on Evidence, We Need to be Able to Say the Word
The Trump administration wants to ban terms like “evidence-based” from government reporting. But if policymakers can’t make budget and policy decisions based on evidence, what, exactly, is supposed to guide them?