This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The #MeToo movement has sparked global action against sexual violence across entertainment, media and politics. Now, the aid industry — where 86 percent of employees know a colleague who has experienced work-related…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Building Markets started in 2004 with a deceptively simple mission: to reduce poverty in crisis-impacted countries by championing local entrepreneurs. Building markets connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Guatemala is a tough place to be a kid. The fastest growing country and primary recipient of U.S. remittances in Central America is also one of the hemisphere’s poorest nations,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The well-worn debate over whether immigrants contribute to the nation’s prosperity or compete with U.S.-born workers can be heard again in discussions on whether Congress should legalize unauthorized immigrants who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enthusiasm for long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, methods, including implants and intrauterine devices, has grown dramatically among development and public health practitioners in recent years. Given their differential burden of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2004, 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown shot and killed a man. She was working as a prostitute and the man she killed had allegedly solicited her for sex. Under Tennessee law,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re still several years out from 2020, but funders are already preparing for a census that experts believe will be unusually fraught by challenges like underfunding, cybersecurity threats, partisan sabotage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jenny Leung and her family emigrated from China when she was just three years old, squeezing into a small apartment on top of a steep Daly City, California hill. “I always…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “There’s a strong chance the next Bill Gates isn’t going to look anything like the last one,” wrote Melinda Gates in a recent post taking venture capitalists to task for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, a girl in Melody Gonzalez’s class at Las Palmas Middle School, in the San Gabriel Valley, started sobbing in class one day. Gonzales asked her what was wrong.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2015, United Nations member states agreed to make Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Why? Because without satisfactory health coverage for individuals, the well-being of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the United States, Germany, and Greece to Kenya, Iran, and the Dominican Republic, national governments in 2017 reinforced their determination to return unwelcome migrants and, in some cases, refugees…