Economic Development
Unveiling the Informal Economy
Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.
Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.
Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take historical context into account.
These battle-tested insights can help social enterprises increase their impact as they navigate severe crises like COVID-19.
Four lessons from Togo on scaling health care innovation through the public sector.
New research indicates that prawns offer an unlikely solution for an infectious disease in Senegal.
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
Governments, foundations, and social enterprises that want to ramp up the production and distribution of medical equipment in response to COVID-19 and other ongoing threats need to assess the process holistically or risk overpromising and underdelivering on important aid. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Funders can build on “constituent engagement” by supporting peer groups as they lead their own change and work collectively to advance their lives.
How Amani Institute is building a skills-based and inclusive curriculum for changemaking in the developing world. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
BanQu is the world’s first non-cryptocurrency blockchain app to help the world’s poorest people establish a verifiable economic identity. A Field Report from the Summer 2020 issue.