Urban Development
Wanted: New Frameworks for Urban Housing
As global base of the pyramid urban evictions intensify, we need good quality, affordable housing that creates attractive profit opportunities.
Tag: Asia
Technology & Design
Building Better Solutions Together, Faster
A look at the innovative *Weekend Movement in Malaysia.
Podcast
Business
GSB 2011 Healthcare Summit: Future of the Healthcare Sector
John Capek talks about ways we can improve the potential success for technologies in order to improve the delivery of healthcare over the next decade.
Social Entrepreneurship
Prime Time in Afghanistan
An interview with Tom Freston, chairman of the ONE Campaign.
Global Issues
From the Field: Vietnamese Anti-Poverty Model May Work Elsewhere
I set out to see if the organizational models of two successful Vietnamese nonprofits were location-specific.
Environment
From the Field: Indigenous Environmentalists Strive to Reforest Indonesia
In Indonesia, the issue of customary land rights is in debate.
Economic Development
The Miracle of Financial Inclusion
The founder of the Kashf Foundation argues that microfinance can improve the lives of Pakistan’s next generation.
Philanthropy
It’s Not About the Tea
By and large, the Central Asia Institute's supporters went for a feel-good story, didn’t do their homework, and didn’t ask the right questions with the Three Cups of Tea dust up.
Podcast
Design Thinking
Design Thinking for Social Inclusion
Jocelyn Wyatt, social innovation lead at IDEO, describes her organization's efforts to use design thinking, a problem-solving system that is grounded in a client's or costumer's needs.
Microfinance
Skoll 2011 Interview: Susan Davis and Rumee Ali of BRAC
Exciting announcement revealed at the Skoll World Forum: BRAC and MasterCard Foundation announced a $45 million partnership.