Exploring Failure

By Marcia Stepanek

Failure and its upside—a report from the 2010 PopTech conference.

Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa

By Reeta Roy

How do we promote bottom-up entrepreneurship in emerging economies?

Learning, Earning, and Saving

By Reeta Roy 2

The need for holistic approaches to poverty alleviation for young people in Africa.

Podcast

NewSchools Venture Summit

Featuring Arne Duncan and George Miller

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chairman of the House Committee on Education George Miller, address the NewSchools Summit 2010.

Podcast

Disaster Relief; How Can Business Help?

Featuring Joe Becker 1

Joe Becker, the Senior Vice President of Disaster Services at the American Red Cross, who explains how partnerships with businesses can bring resiliency back to a community after disaster —.

Podcast

Creating a World Without Poverty

Featuring Muhammad Yunus

Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus talks about how he founded Grameen Bank to offer economic building tools for some of the poorest people in Bangladesh.

Concrete Ways for the US to Move “Beyond the Line” When It Measures Poverty

By Shawn Fremstad

What would it take to implement “next-generation” poverty measures in the United States?

Digging for Ponies

By Peter Manzo

Two years after the spectacular failure in the financial markets, it’s getting even more difficult to look on the bright side.

Questions to Address Youth Unemployment

By Reeta Roy 1

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.

Unitus, We Stand; Divide Us, We Fall

By Jonathan C. Lewis 4

An external agency should review the circumstances surrounding the Unitus decision to terminate its 10-year commitment to microfinance.