Microfinance Under Fire
The good work of Grameen Bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, is being threatened by politics in Bangladesh.
View ArticlePublishers as Partners in Literacy
First Book Marketplace, which makes quality new books affordable for poor children, helps in ways that libraries and used book bins can't.
View ArticleOut of Poverty, Family-Style
An initiative that brings struggling families together to help each other out of poverty is providing a new model for social welfare.
View ArticleWorkers of the World, Employed
A new type of ethical outsourcing is showing that young people from the poorest corners of the world can be reliable knowledge workers.
View ArticleIn the Fight Against Poverty, It's Time for a Revolution
With poverty in America deepening, the need for committed programs like LIFT has grown more urgent.
View ArticleA Boost for the World's Poorest Schools
The goal of putting millions more children in school in the world's poorest places has been a huge success. The next task is making sure they learn.
View ArticleConquering Food Deserts With Green Carts
Programs to get fresh produce carts to areas with no access to healthy food work best when government and determined entrepreneurs team up.
View ArticleThe Microinsurance Revolution
Insurance is often out of reach for those in need. But in India, Africa and elsewhere, small, inexpensive policies are protecting millions.
View ArticleWhat a Little Land Can Do
By partnering with governments to peacefully redistribute small plots of land, the nonprofit group Landesa is helping to bring food, income, stability and dignity to India's poorest.
View ArticleAt Year's End, News of a Global Health Success
The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.
View ArticleThe Hidden Prosperity of the Poor
Is life on the bottom and in the middle better than it seems?
View ArticleIn the South and West, a Tax on Being Poor
Struggling Americans are worse off in regions with regressive systems for raising money.
View ArticleWho Is Poor?
Three ways of defining poverty suggest three different approaches to relief.
View ArticleBeyond Profit: A Talk With Muhammad Yunus
The founder of microfinance discusses his fight to protect the Grameen Bank and the future of social business.
View ArticleA By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month
Bridge International Academies in Kenya offers a fast-growing model for providing affordable education to poor children on a grand scale.
View ArticleCrumbling American Dreams
A national economic, social and cultural whirlwind transformed the life chances of the children and grandchildren of those I graduated from Port Clinton High School with in 1959.
View ArticleThe Benefits of Cash Without Conditions
There is evidence that giving money directly to the poor, even without enforcing the usual requirements, can help some on the path to a better life.
View ArticleEscaping the Cycle of Scarcity
The bad decisions of the poor, says a new book, are not a product of bad character or low intelligence. They are a product of poverty itself.
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