It’s World Toilet Day and the blogosphere is all abuzz with humorous talk of toilets, interesting factoids (e.g., more people…
As loyal readers of this blog know, I’ve been watching and reporting on the increasing turmoil in the Indian microfinance…
The Gates Foundation just finished hosting the Global Savings Forum which included exploring how the poor can expand their use…
Over the last few decades, one of the most popular anti-poverty schemes around the world has been microcredit — getting…
On the first day of Global Washington’s annual meeting, being held through Tuesday on the Microsoft campus, one of the…
You may recall the flap caused by Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times about “Do-it-Yourself” foreign aid –…
Here’s an interesting article and map from the Economist on the “True True Size of Africa.” Africa is huge. Nancy…
This is a very cool way to explore and compare how nations rank on issues of foreign aid, international development,…
Is Microfinance the New Subprime? That’s the provocative title of a new article in the Harvard Business Review by financial…
Jonathan Watts used to say a prayer as a young boy living in Britain that included the request: “Please make…