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Global Issues - Book Reviews
Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
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Government by Toolkit
The first chief technology officer of the United States offers a vision for remaking public services.
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The Trouble With Top-Down
The limits of technocratic, one-size-fits-all approaches to economic development have become all too evident.
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A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
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Safety as a Civil Right
Lawless violence in the developing world is a plague that undermines efforts to end extreme poverty.
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Future Thirst
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
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Going With the “Idea Flow”
An emerging "data-driven" science of human behavior promises to help us understand and solve social problems.
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Prepare to Update Your Theory of Change
The new book Scarcity provides critical insights for designing better anti-poverty programs, but not for allocating scarce philanthropic resources.
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Stories out of School
The movement to reform public schools through competition and testing is a "hoax," according to a one-time promoter of the movement.