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- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-029 At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee: A Call to Action
The inner city of Milwaukee holds great promise, but is not advancing economically. The inner city has been hard hit by the loss of many of its largest employers as a result of relocation, acquisition and failure. According to the 2000 US Census data, thirty percent of... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee: A Call to Action." Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, September 2003. (Report.)
- April 1989 (Revised April 1990)
- Case
Hunger in the Sudan
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Hunger in the Sudan." Harvard Business School Case 389-202, April 1989. (Revised April 1990.)
- 2002
- Book
Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
Retsinas, Nicolas P. and Eric S. Belsky, eds. Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
- December 20, 2007
- Article
Profit And Poverty: Why It Matters
By: Michael Chu
Commentary on investing in microfinance View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
Fighting AIDS, Fighting Poverty: Customer Centric Marketing in the Generic Antiretroviral Business
By: Rohit Deshpandé and Zoe Chance
Keywords: Health Disorders; Poverty; Product Marketing; Customers; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Deshpandé, Rohit, and Zoe Chance. "Fighting AIDS, Fighting Poverty: Customer Centric Marketing in the Generic Antiretroviral Business." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- July 2009 (Revised June 2012)
- Teaching Note
Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709015]. View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
When is Doing Business with the Poor Good - For the Poor? A Household and National Income Accounting Approach
By: Dutch Leonard
Leonard, Dutch. "When is Doing Business with the Poor Good - For the Poor? A Household and National Income Accounting Approach." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- Article
Cross Country: They'd Sooner Fix Medicaid
By: Tom Coburn and Regina Herzlinger
Coburn, Tom, and Regina Herzlinger. "Cross Country: They'd Sooner Fix Medicaid." Wall Street Journal (May 18, 2006).
- November/December 1978
- Article
What Comes First in Feeding the Hungry?
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "What Comes First in Feeding the Hungry?" Nutrition Today (November/December 1978).
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
- 08 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Food Security and Human Mobility During the Covid-19 Lockdown
- November 2022
- Article
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Erin L. Frey, Sandra C. Matz, Bertus F. Jeronimus and Adam D. Galinsky
Although income is an important predictor of life satisfaction, the precise forces that drive this relationship remain unclear. We propose that financial resources afford individuals a path to reducing the distressing impact of everyday hassles, in turn increasing... View Details
Keywords: Distress; Affect; Control; Financial Scarcity; Life Satisfaction; Income; Poverty; Well-being
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Erin L. Frey, Sandra C. Matz, Bertus F. Jeronimus, and Adam D. Galinsky. "The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life." Social Psychological & Personality Science 13, no. 8 (November 2022): 1187–1198.
- Article
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India
By: Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol
Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment, we compare the classic contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan... View Details
Field, Erica, Rohini Pande, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol. "Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India." American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (October 2013): 2196–2226.
- 2008
- Chapter
Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households
By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government... View Details
Keywords: Bi-level Optimization; Optimal Subsidies; Public Policy; Food Policy; Central Planner; Government Administration; Poverty; Food; Nutrition
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 6053-19, November 2019.
- September 2008
- Article
Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets
By: Rawi Abdelal, Ayesha Khan and Tarun Khanna
Abdelal, Rawi, Ayesha Khan, and Tarun Khanna. "Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 9 (September 2008): 119–128.
- January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Supplement
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz, and John Dean Shepherd. "Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 207-018, January 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
- January 2000
- Article
Utility Functions for Wealth
By: David E. Bell and Peter C Fishburn
Keywords: Wealth
Bell, David E., and Peter C Fishburn. "Utility Functions for Wealth." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 20 (January 2000): 1–5.