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  • 05 Sep 2014
  • News

Dina Pomeranz explicó las consecuencias de la evasión de impuestos

  • March 2025
  • Case

GiveDirectly: Can Direct Cash Transfers End Extreme Poverty?

By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin N. Roth, Sarah Mehta and John Schultz
Founded in 2008, GiveDirectly was a nonprofit organization that used direct cash transfers—giving people cash via mobile money—to combat poverty worldwide. By August 2024, the organization had transferred over $800 million to poor people in targeted communities and... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Ethics; Growth and Development; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Research; Social Enterprise; Society; Africa; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; United States
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    Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa

    Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak... View Details

    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

    By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
    What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details
    Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty
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    • 02 May 2014
    • News

    Does Unusual Weather Cause More Crime?

    • 2023
    • Chapter

    Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making

    By: Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
    BOOK ABSTRACT: Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality
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      Africa Rising: A Historical Perspective

      Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details

      • 15 Jan 2020
      • Video

      Suresh Krishna

      Suresh Krishna, founder of the largest manufacturer of industrial fasteners for the auto industry in India, explains his “dharma of business”: to lift as many people out of poverty as he can while also running... View Details
      • Video

      Naguib Sawiris

      Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, details the establishment of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001 which aims to combat poverty in Egypt through education, job creation and training in fields such as nursing. View Details
      • 01 Nov 2022
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

      Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
      • 13 Dec 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Improving Public Health for the Poor

      course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, and its concepts and... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
      • 20 Sep 2014
      • News

      Beyond cows

      • March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      Inequality in Brazil

      By: Aldo Musacchio
      This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Brazil
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        Ela Bhatt

        Keywords: Microfinance
        • 21 Feb 2007
        • Op-Ed

        What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

        poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often... View Details
        Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial Inclusion

        By: Rajiv Lal and Ishan Sachdev
        Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development of novel methods to enable individuals at the base of the pyramid to access formal financial services... View Details
        Keywords: Social Marketing; Poverty; Emerging Markets; Product Launch; Economic Growth; Financial Services Industry
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        • 14 Jun 2019
        • News

        A Simple Strategy For Happiness

        • 23 Aug 2016
        • News

        U.S.-style canvassing boosts French voter turnout.

        • 15 Apr 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: April 15

        Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia Topalova Abstract—Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 Aug 2019
        • Video

        Improving lives one data set at a time