Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Tag: Africa
Business
Microinsurance: Scaling Through Peer Learning
Insurers in Peru and South Africa are learning from each other how to reach low-income clients and help break the cycle of poverty.
Civil Society
The Promise of Mandatory Community Service
How a little-known tradition that helped rebuild Rwanda could help the rest of us.
Design Thinking
Design Thinking for Accountability
A new community justice system in Liberia emerges from a design-thinking approach.
Technology & Design
The Challenge of Scaling Digitally
The role of emerging technologies in traditionally “high-touch” development organizations—insights from BRAC’s recent Frugal Innovation Forum.
Foundations
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
Philanthropy
GiveThoughtfully: It Depends on Your Point of View
Bringing a discussion of cash transfers in for a landing.
Philanthropy
Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
Economic Development
GiveDirectly? Not So Fast.
We are mistaking an important experiment for a proven solution.
Podcast
Social Entrepreneurship
Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Africa
Ned Breslin speaks with Towera Jalakasi, an innovative entrepreneur who talks about the struggles and rewards of entrepreneurship in a developing economy.