Economic Development
No Strings Attached
Worries about the negative effects of unconditional cash transfers to relieve poverty are greatly exaggerated.
Tag: Africa
Environment
Marine Conservation 2.0
Saving the oceans requires the buy-in of coastal communities directly affected by environmental protections.
Health
Health-Clinic Entrepreneurs
South Africa’s Unjani Non Profit Corporation is boosting community health by helping nurses launch their own clinics.
Social Enterprise
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Old Practice, New Concept
Better defining social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa can help drive policy dialogue, create useful legal frameworks, and facilitate the financing and support services social enterprises in the region need to succeed.
Scaling
The Messy Middle: Managing the Challenges of Scale-up
Five lessons on scaling educational technology for the most vulnerable children.
Education
Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions
Technological innovations have the potential to transform education, but only if they encourage a more active learning environment that fosters critical thinking.
Impact Investing
Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier
At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras.
Design Thinking
Conflict Aid Goes “Lean”
Iterative design methods are essential to development work—even (or especially) in regions marked by war and violence.
Education
Why Social Impact Educators Should Disrupt Their Own Systems
Changing who and how universities teach social innovation offers unprecedented learning opportunities for students—and the potential to create greater social impact.
Social Issues
Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.