“Poor Economics” Needs a Theory
To understand poverty, we need a more complex epistemology that allows for the interdependencies which correlation often implies.
To understand poverty, we need a more complex epistemology that allows for the interdependencies which correlation often implies.
The owner of the only certified B Corporation in Kentucky assesses the pros and cons of the certification.
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
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.
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.