Global Issues
Tackling Energy Poverty With Pay-As-You-Go Solar
Lesley Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, discusses an approach to energy poverty that helps end users afford efficient energy and lighting products.
Lesley Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, discusses an approach to energy poverty that helps end users afford efficient energy and lighting products.
Ned Breslin speaks with Towera Jalakasi, an innovative entrepreneur who talks about the struggles and rewards of entrepreneurship in a developing economy.
Pamela Ronald, of the University of California, Davis, talks about how her laboratory, in collaboration with other scientists, developed a variety of rice with sufficient submergence tolerance to survive severe flooding.
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
How a family foundation identified the nonprofit V-Day as a partner to create a new kind of scholarship program.
Communities in emerging economies must work collectively to extend public services until they can build out formal infrastructures.
The principles of collective impact offer important lessons for architects of global collaborative efforts.
An initiative undertaken by the World Bank reveals a troubling gap in the financing of social enterprises.