Changing Savings Habits
Can financial education in grade school have long-term effects?
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Creating Value Through Uncommon Alliances
The US State Department is redefining diplomacy and development.
Banking on Low-Income Families
The Center for Community Self-Help provides financial services to those who can’t afford to live without them.
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A Market (Rather Than Civil) Society
Michael Sandel's latest book takes up the question: What are the moral limits of the marketplace?
Development Controversy a Sign of Sophistication
Public debate about two prominent poverty-alleviation programs shows that over the past 15 years international development has become much more scientific.
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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.