A Review of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. “People always lecture the poor: ‘Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!’ But with what raw […]
For those of you from more advanced countries with the metric system, the title to this post is “3.1 Kilograms and 42.2 Kilometers.” On Sunday, October […]
Last summer I served as a trainer on a visit by the heads of social protection (anti-poverty) programs from countries of Africa and the Caribbean to […]
Savings Groups: Financial Services that People in Poverty Can Manage by Themselves Jeff Ashe was the person who introduced me to microfinance 35 years ago. […]
While searching for something else on the internet I came across this moving speech that Emmanuel Faber, CEO of Danone Yogurt, gave to his alma mater, […]
Jerry Nemorin is the CEO and co-founder of LendStreet. We both serve on the Steering Committee of the Smart Campaign, a global effort to promote transparency, […]
Visualizing Ultra-Poverty Over the last two months, I have given two presentations on ultra-poverty. As I prepared for the first one, I tried to think […]
What does gender have to do with health and nutrition? Former Malawi President Joyce Banda said it best at the RESULTS International Conference, “The woman raises […]