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On World Food Day, praise for a humble business structure: The co-op
Filipino farmers plant rice. Photo: Schubert Ciencia (Flickr)For agriculture cooperatives, this year’s World Food Day has been a day in the sun.Given the right support from governments, civil society...
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Microsoft's new core philanthropy: Training kids to make software
Youth Spark works to support youth education, especially in the tech sector. Photo: Youth Spark (Microsoft)Microsoft is rethinking its charity strategies to spread the spark of high-tech education—and...
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Incubating women's businesses in Palestine
The women in TYO's WISE program participate in a wide array of trainings, including Business English classes like this one. Photo: Lila Wakili (Tomorrow's Youth Organization)This article was...
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You can't solve poverty by supplying products not in demand
Vegetables at Market Bioversity International (Flickr).Are humanitarian aid groups really demand-driven? Development economist James Riordan, says NGOs, government agencies and consulting firms,...
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Four sensible ideas for helping African youth gain meaningful employment
What system provides jobs for African youth? Photo: Espen Faugstad(Flickr)Following a new movement to increase youth employment, the African Economic Outlook (AEO) published a report this year...
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Devil take the hindmost? Haiti peanut battle puts NGOs head to head
Left: Patricia Wolff, founder and executive director of Meds and Food for Kids. (Photo: MFK.) Right: Paul Farmer, founder and executive director of Partners in Health. (Photo: Nyaya Health,...
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MFIs should offer more than just microfinance, study finds
Mobile phones are one of the ways ADB says will increase microfinance availability among the poor. Photo: CIMMYT (flickr). Despite the surging popularity of microfinance in the last several decades,...
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Chit funds: You save your money, you take your chances
Chit funds have traditionally been utilized by groups of women in Southern India World Bank (flickr)Amid the setbacks affecting India’s microfinance market an old time tradition has emerged with...
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Geekery for all: Google chips $6m to youth tech empowerment
Companies are working to empower in the tech sector. Photo: UN Women Arab States (Flickr)With the iLab educating in Liberia and the Switchboard mobilizing health across Africa, Google is working on...
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Fighting poverty without rapid growth: Bangladesh shows how it's done
By increasing the amount of food harvested per year, Bangladesh has been able to decrease the number of undernourished peopleWorld Bank (flickr)Bangladesh is living proof that empowering and assisting...
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Would freer migration be even better for growth than freer trade?
In Greece, right-wing parties have blamed immigrants for economic trouble. But a survey of the facts shows that migration brings benefits to rich and poor countries alike. Photo: Giannis Angelakis...
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Guatemala’s Tiendas de la Salud: Where profit and social impact meet
Tienda owners in rural Guatemala stand proudly in front of their store, newly stocked with much-needed health products. Photo: Lindsay Murphy/Mercy Corps.By Leigh Morgan, a former senior executive in...
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Quotable: Social enterprise needs both smart grants and investment
"Philanthropy has more than one tool," writes Felix Oldenburg of Ashoka in Forbes today:Maybe it is time to rehabilitate grants as a key tool in the investor toolbox. They are not a “loser currency”...
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Why the biggest brand sometimes isn't the best innovation partner
Heinz sells 80 percent of British beans. That may be exactly why they passed on a chance to do so in a more innovative way. Photo: Kevin Spencer (flickr)A new case study of the Ethiopian bean industry...
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Four ways to make contract farming work for the very poor
Kenyan smallholder farmers. Photo: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture (flickr)Will contract farming, done right, serve as the missing link between small farmers and markets?Contract...
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How a Tanzania NGO scrapped grants to build markets that last
Like this farmer in Kenya, the challenge in Tanzania is connecting smallholder farmers to larger markets. Photo: CIAT International Center for Tropical AgricultureWhen it comes to solving poverty,...
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Pakistan has every ingredient for growth … except entrepreneurship
The possibility for a strong entrepreneurial market is great in Pakistan. Photo: zerega (flickr)Pakistan is at the top of South Asian economies, but by underproducing a crucial product, young...
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How to make social impact bonds work for the global South
With these tips SIB's might be ready to do some globe trotting Photo: dcgreer (flickr)Social impact bonds are popping up the world over, and consulting firm Instiglio has five tips for investors and...
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Who needs education most? A new data source visualizes it
World Inequality Database on Education: Haiti Data visualized helps program designers know who to target.In the race to be qualified for good jobs the starting line is jagged-some youth start further...
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Good show! How an NGO convinced commercial TV to serve the poor
Indonesian farmers can benefit greatly from information on how to make their products thrive. Photo WorldFish (Flickr)Information is power, but only if people have access to it. In 2006, a Swiss NGO...
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