This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Newspapers have reported on people unaffected by the earthquakes posing as victims in order to claim assistance meant for those who lost their homes. In Oaxaca a man claiming to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In order to find out what difference a program per se makes, you need to know what would have happened if the program had not existed (this is called the counterfactual). Hence, the methodology…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, the United Nations joins in observing “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” to draw attention to the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. This year,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. PSI has begun looking at market-based solutions in Benin, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, and India. In India, alone, 524 million people lack access to any kind of toilet. A…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child marriage is standing in the way of progress towards many of our 2030 Global Goals. For as long as child marriage continues to exist, so will poverty and instability,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The International Day to End Violence Against Women (Nov. 25) was marked by marches in Chile, Lebanon, Italy, Mozambique, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Landmarks, from the Christ the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is the standout tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has an endowment of over $40bn and has given away $41.3bn in grants to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank now has three benchmarks for measuring poverty. The “headline” extreme poverty threshold of $1.90/day will stay, but two new international poverty lines were added for lower middle-income ($3.20/day)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past few weeks, leaders from government, business, private philanthropies, and foundations gathered in Europe and Africa to address the fact that nearly every country in the world is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mentoring schemes are increasingly seen as a valuable tool to support women climbing the career ladder and address the enduring gender gap at the top of the international development sector,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2030 diseases associated with wealth will kill more people in sub-Saharan Africa than diseases associated with poverty. The sharp increase in diseases linked to lifestyle, or noncommunicable diseases (NDCs), is putting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scaling—expanding and deepening the impact of an initiative—often seems like it should be common sense. When a simple, impactful, cost-effective solution to a pressing problem is developed, how can it…