Business
Putting the SDGs Back on Track
Worldwide SDG efforts are failing. How can businesses do their part to make things right?
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Tag: International Development
Philanthropy & Funding
How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development
The pursuit of better social outcomes, not new products, should drive the international development community’s approach to innovative finance.
Philanthropy & Funding
Leading to Local
How philanthropists can learn to better partner with locally led organizations.
Water & Sanitation
Waterborne Democracy for Rural India
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
Economic Development
What ‘Cash Plus’ Programs Teach Us About Fighting Extreme Poverty
Years of implementing, studying, and iterating on cash transfer programs have revealed some important lessons about achieving long-term impact.
Education
The Great Disrupter of Disadvantage
Education stops intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, Danish administrative data shows.
Economic Development
The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good. | Open access to this article made possible by Harvard Business School Division of Research and Faculty Development
Economic Development
Bringing Evidence-Based Policy Change to Rural China
Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Program has established a one-of-a-kind research collaborative among Chinese, US, and European universities to improve the lot of rural Chinese families. Its success shows the potential of applying scientific methods to development and forging global partnerships for social impact.
Collaboration
Two Experiments With Outcomes Frameworks
The new public management model of governance has failed. But an emerging collaborative and democratic approach shows promise.
Measurement & Evaluation
Putting Evidence to Use
Research does no good if its insights are irrelevant or not applied. Ensuring that evidence influences policy requires developing the right ecosystem and levers for accountability.