Closing the Culture Gap
Aiding Africans first requires understanding their cultures.
Economic Development Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Child’s Play
A video game teaches children about famines and how to stop them.
Small Is Beautiful
Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits.
Review: Bootstrap Dreams
The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States.
Local Heroes
How Mexican immigrants have forged complex government partnerships to improve living conditions back home.
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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.