For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Patrick Awuah, a Ghanaian who having done well in the United States – including a stint at Microsoft – has returned to his West African home to start its first liberal arts university.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost half of all nonprofits and public charities end in failure. This is due to a lot of…
TAMALE, Ghana – A water dugout the size of a few football fields stands just outside the village of Kuruguvuhuyayili,…
Livestock, cash support and training help the ultra-poor escape extreme poverty. A new research paper combining findings from studies on what…
ELMINA, Ghana – Each evening the fishermen set out in their hand-carved wooden boats. By nightfall, the horizon is dotted…
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking to Sammie Rayner, someone we think represents two fascinating phenomena within the humanitarian sector.…
Just in time for the holiday season is a new way for people living in Washington D.C. to save money…
In the increasingly heated debate swirling around the global movement for Universal Health Coverage, the experts are dueling over some pretty equivocal data. If the poor have free access to health care, does their health improve? Some say the evidence isn’t there. But is this debate missing the forest for the trees?
I wrote about this documentary “An African Election” last May when I saw it and talked with its director, Jarreth…
The Guardian reports on new data indicating we are making progress against poverty: Remember the poverty trap? Countries stuck in…