Taking Lessons from Africa’s Youth
Those who want a prosperous future for the continent need to engage—and listen to—its young leaders.
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Product Paternalism
Women’s empowerment means voter choice, partner choice, healthcare choice, reproductive choice, career choice, and consumer choice.
At Least Take Down the Signs
Old-school development and its rusting reminders.
Where Is the BOP Health Care Fortune?
Research shows that healthcare social enterprises are segmenting the BOP and leaving the bottom 50 percent of consumers behind.
The Commodification of Architecture
Catastrophes of the built environment, like the Bangladeshi factory collapse, expose the true cost in public suffering when we fail to build resiliently.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.