Global Issues
Credit Where It’s Due
New tools and practices are helping low-income Americans use rent payments to build up their financial profile.
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Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
Global Issues
The Gift of Time
Careful product design enabled Days for Girls to create a solution that empowers its users at a critical stage of their lives. Includes magazine extras.
Knowledge Versus Power
Instead of building an independent base of expertise, many NGOs in China focus on retaining ties to government agencies.
21st-Century Refugee Protection
Today’s 60 million displaced people have a basic need beyond food, water, and shelter: legal representation.
Building a Global Humanitarian Aid Hub
Humanitarian aid needs a broader platform for collaborative innovation and resource management.
Food
More Than a Meal
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Review
A New Vision for Elder Care
Can the emergence of a “Caring Majority” help meet the needs of an aging US population?
Ends and Means
In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
A Strategy for Alleviating Poverty
Why there is a renewed sense of urgency and optimism about place-based initiatives.