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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
film. Both seemed in short supply when Parija was growing up poor in a tiny rural village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Still, there was a spark. “I knew I could not change my destiny to be born... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
African manner, with the local chief, the two men deep in conversation about rural issues. The tableau seemed confirmation that Wolfensohn himself embodied the grassroots, humane approach he has espoused as essential for the troubled... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
But China will not become a land without farmers or rural industries overnight, and those hundreds of millions of people will need to access the social safety net that allows them to consume if the domestic market is to continue to grow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the bill. Moguls have propagated a myth that justifies their poor performance: since they manage creative talent and artistic product, traditional strategic, financial, and operational appraisal metrics do not apply to them. But since... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the... View Details
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Jennifer Kelly
In the Philippines, Jennifer Kelly grew up under the inspiring example of her parents, both social workers who served in rural communities. "I wanted to follow in their footsteps," Jennifer says. "But in college, I began to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
improvements in impoverished countries. Lodge advanced the ideas in a January 2006 two-part piece in YaleGlobal coauthored with economist Craig Wilson. The authors also have a book due in May, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
Unilever, and startups such as Ohmium Green Hydrogen, Ather Mobility, StringBio, and Exponent Energy. We will also focus on rural development and energy access for the poor arranged through organizations... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative solutions to customer problems. Employees of China's Haier, for example, discovered through visiting rural customers that they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average... View Details