Technology & Design
Virtual Models for Real Issues
Agent-based modeling—a form of computer visualization—is being used to analyze a range of public health issues.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Social Entrepreneurship
Delivering the Goods
Entrepreneurs are setting up shop in the nation's urban food deserts.
Health
The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
Economic Development
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Measuring Social Impact
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
Global Issues
What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
Economic Development
Personal Attention Reduces Poverty
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
Health
Safer Deliveries
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
Global Issues
Realigning Health with Care
The misalignment between the expansive goal of “health” and a cramped definition of “care” has cost the United States untold lives and treasure. Yet realignment is in reach.
Impact Investing
The Distortion Risk in Impact Investing
How do we ensure that philanthropic subsidies in impact investing are put to productive use?