Economic Development
Youth Unemployment in the Developing World Is a Jobs Problem
Instead of treating education like a silver bullet, a demand-side job creation strategy should be at the heart of youth unemployment programs.
Instead of treating education like a silver bullet, a demand-side job creation strategy should be at the heart of youth unemployment programs.
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
Too many global health crises play out in silos on every continent, but there is much to learn across borders about creating better health and well-being in communities.
Worldwide SDG efforts are failing. How can businesses do their part to make things right?
Open access to this article is made possible by a research grant from E4S (Enterprise for Society Center)
The pursuit of better social outcomes, not new products, should drive the international development community’s approach to innovative finance.
How philanthropists can learn to better partner with locally led organizations.
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.
Years of implementing, studying, and iterating on cash transfer programs have revealed some important lessons about achieving long-term impact.
Education stops intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, Danish administrative data shows.
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.