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Tapping the Entrepreneurial Potential of Grassroots Innovation
Instead of treating poor people as a sink of public aid and assistance, we should view them as a source of new ideas and innovations.
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Impact Investing
Factoring for Change
To support entrepreneurs in emerging markets, investors are drawing upon a financial tradition that dates back centuries.
Global Issues
Toward a Global Science of Delivery
It’s time to compile global delivery knowledge and mobilize it for practice.
Technology & Design
Poverty-Fighting Salons
Can open conversations accelerate the spread of good ideas in global development?
Health
Scaling Mobile Health Solutions the Hard Way
Part of a special series on scaling mobile health initiatives.
Education
Pushing MOOCs the Last Mile
Online education is already changing the way people learn all over the world, but is it reaching the populations that can benefit most?
Economic Development
Imagine Trying to Get a Loan Without a Financial Identity
InVenture enables people in India and Kenya to send their financial data via SMS and get a simple financial overview of their monetary lives.
Impact Investing
Achieving Takeoff
Part VI in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Impact Investing
Do No Harm: Subsidies and Impact Investing
Part IV in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.