Government
Rethinking Democracy, the Social Contract, and Globalization
Renovating Democracy explores how the digital revolution has irrevocably altered how we engage with participatory democracy and with how democracy works for us.
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Economic Development - Book Excerpts
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Economic Development
Basic Income and Development Goals
Through a skeptical lens, The Case for Universal Basic Income lays bare the reasons for universal basic income in a shared sense of humanity.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Open Source Aid
An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.
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Economic Development
The Significance of Four Centuries of Black Labor
An excerpt from Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America reflects on the meaning of centuries of black labor for the future of America’s economy and democracy.
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Environment
Sustainable Disruption
An excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability
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Economic Development
Five Industry-Changing Principles from India
An excerpt from Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How To Make Value-Based Delivery Work
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Human Rights
The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics
A dialogue with University of Michigan professor Dean Yang on what we can—and can't—learn from randomized controlled trials.
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Economic Development
Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact
How gender lens investing can contribute to economic prosperity and equal rights.
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Economic Development
An Overview of Free Innovation
New findings on the large scale and importance of innovation by consumers fundamentally change how we understand the innovation process.