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| Innovation to the Rescue |
| Rocco Nuri, Neha Bhat | 03/21/13 |
| The UN refugee agency is adopting an innovation-centered approach in pursuit of better services, products, and outcomes for displaced populations. | |
| Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal |
| Todd Moss | 12/06/12 |
| We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector? | |
| Using ICT to Enable Agricultural Innovation Systems |
| 10/23/12 | |
| The potential of ICTs to help small farmers exchange information is clear. World Bank and FAO hosted a discussion on current projects that are expected to bring beneficial results. | |
| Small-Scale Bioenergy Initiatives |
| 02/02/12 | |
| Fifteen case studies in 12 countries demonstrate that natural resource efficiency is possible in small-scale bioenergy initiatives, such as biodigesters and efficient stoves. | |
| Millions of Poor Women Are Still Waiting to Reap the Benefits of Cairo |
| 09/19/11 | |
| The 1994 Cairo conference put reproductive choice in the hands of women, but women living in poverty need more than empty pledges so that they too can take part in saving the Earth. | |
| The Girl Effect: An Innovation Kitchen |
| Swan Paik, Julia Taylor Kennedy | 08/30/11 |
| Investing in women and girls is like cooking in an innovation kitchen, says Swan Paik of the Nike Foundation. They have enormous potential to accelerate change. | |
| Generous India |
| Shashi Tharoor | 06/20/11 |
| India's strength as an aid provider is that it is not an over-developed power, but rather one whose own experience of development is both recent and familiar. | |
| Valid Solutions for Malnutrition |
| Laurance Allen | 04/05/11 |
| Health and nutrition pioneer Steve Collins is building a social enterprise to battle severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic foods grown and manufactured in the developing world. | |
| Public Works and Employment Programs |
| 09/23/10 | |
| This working paper makes the case for longer-term development approaches to combat systemic poverty and assesses the desirability and feasibility of adopting Employment Guarantee programs. | |
| Assessing Progress in Africa toward the MDGs |
| 09/23/10 | |
| There are indicators of hope in Africa with a 50 percent decrease in malaria in 15 countries and nine countries reaching 90 percent access to safe drinking water, yet this report also stresses Africa's struggle to meet health targets. | |
| Tegegnework Gettu |
| Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
| Sparking a Glimmer of Hope |
| Laurance Allen | 11/04/09 |
| Social entrepreneur Philip Berber experiments with a new model for development aid by covering overhead costs through his A Glimmer of Hope Foundation so that donations go directly to recipients. | |
| A Glimmer of Hope Foundation |
| Smallpox—The Death of a Disease |
| D. A. Henderson | 10/28/09 |
| Real-life hero D. A. Henderson reveals how a small but fiercely dedicated team under his direction succeeded in eliminating smallpox, a disease which had killed over half a billion people in the preceding 100 years. | |
| Lucille Pilling |
| Dr. Lucille B. Pilling is a corporate social responsibility strategist with expertise in corporate sustainability and global public health. |
| Will the Crisis Reverse Global Migration? |
| Jayati Ghosh | 07/17/09 |
| As the global economic crisis unfolds, it is clear that the patterns of migration and remittances are more complex than was previously imagined. The gender and sectoral dimensions of immigrant labor must be taken into account. | |
| Water Wars |
| Jeffrey Sachs | 05/01/09 |
| Many of the global security hotspots lie in a great arc of arid lands where water scarcity is leading to failed crops, dying livestock, extreme poverty, and desperation. | |
| Peter Poschen |
| Peter Poschen, Ph.D. is Senior Policy Specialist in the Policy Integration Department of the ILO. He has a long-standing interest, and some 25 years of professional experience, with the social dimensions of sustainable development. |
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