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Social Issues - Articles
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.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
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.
Focused Cardiac Care
What happens when hospitals specialize?
Civic Education Through Social Networks
In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.