It used to be that the best way to raise money for the developing world was to show the abject poverty that could be found there, but NGOs are finding that tactic no longer works. Instead, it's time to focus on solutions.READ»
You probably can't remember how many different ways you use energy during an average day, but billions of people can't take energy use for granted because they don't have access to any. Hugh Whalan is out to change that.READ»
A new breed of do-gooders wants to apply rigorous analysis to development programs. But are they getting any useful information, or just wasting money collecting meaningless data?READ»
"There's a lot to like about urban poverty," writes Edward Glaeser in this provocative new book. When the Harvard economist looks at the poorest cities -- Kinshasa, Rio -- he sees not just deprivation but opportunity. People in slums ...READ»
We all know, at least vaguely, that a better education leads to better prospects in life. But is that really true? A superb map created by GOOD shows that it is -- but thanks to the ingenuity of the map design, it also manages to ...READ»
Fast Retailing will "help solve social problems, including those related to poverty, sanitation and education issues" in Bangladesh and sell hipster T-shirts at the same time.READ»
Dr. Hans Rosling is a legendary TED presenter: He's appeared there a half-dozen times, using stats in ingenious ways to dispel common myths about the developing world. A professor at Karolinska
Institutet in Stockholm, he's got a ...READ»
Most global-poverty workshops share a tedious format -- lots of
yakking, little action. But at this monthlong MIT-organized event,
delegates won't just lament third-world woe; they'll create real
devices to improve life for the ...READ»
Got an old problem? Put a young mind to it. Microsoft's Imagine Cup has announced its 2009 winners, with Oregon's MultiPoint Web edging out the other 14 U.S. finalists in a competition with the lofty aim of tackling United Nations ...READ»
"No! No! No!" Oxford business professor Linda Scott does not use Avon products. In fact, she says with a smile, "One of the worst things that ever happened to me is that a friend of mine started selling Avon." ...READ»
Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.READ»
Rimini, Italy is the site each fall of a conference that is a kind of Clinton Global Initiative for Europe, without Bill Clinton -- a meeting that tackles a single urgent topic over four days. This year’s topic is "le ragioni de penia," the reasons for poverty.READ»
October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action
Day. An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.
The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and
videocasters, by posting ...READ»
I join a site about technology, take the option to start a blog spend half
an hour typing and linking and it just disappears.
have I come to the right place?
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