Economic Development
Community Development Needs a Quarterback
We need to take a new, more holistic approach to creating economic opportunity.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Economic Development
Will a Higher Minimum Wage Help the Poor?
Raising the minimum wage appears to help the poor, but these policies fail to create the conditions that help people move from poverty to prosperity.
Social Entrepreneurship
Disruptive Innovation: Where It Matters Most
It’s time to stop quibbling over what “disruptive innovation” means and focus on how to put it to work for good.
Global Issues
Animal Protection: A Growing and Global Priority
Protecting animals is integral to solving many international problems; we must use the increasing momentum behind animal welfare to drive long-term change.
Technology & Design
Mobile Impact Machine
A new partnership model leverages the world’s largest interconnected industry to help break cycles of poverty.
Collaboration
Cross-Sector Partnership Leads to Cross-Issue Impact
A grassroots soccer league transcends sport to effect community-wide change.
Advocacy
Scrutinizing ONE’s “Secret Sauce” for Global Social Change
How a global NGO has fought extreme poverty using a formula that mixes pragmatic incrementalism and practical idealism with pop culture.
Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Review
Economic Development
The Trouble With Top-Down
The limits of technocratic, one-size-fits-all approaches to economic development have become all too evident.
Microfinance
Broken Rules, Better Loans?
Loan officers’ discretion plays a large role in determining the success of a micro-lending organization.