May 2, 2019
The story of Parbati comes from the Case Study “Nepali Immigrants and Their Disproportional Role in Building Livelihoods in New York City” by Krishna Prasad Subedi […]
April 25, 2019
Almost every social problem gets worse with greater income inequality and improves when there is more equality. This is true not only for the poor but also for the rich, who have longer life spans and better quality of life in countries with less inequality.
April 3, 2019
Measure By How Far We Have Left To Go “Don’t calculate your arrival time based on how far you’ve come, calculate based on how far […]
March 13, 2019
Lift-Off On the table rested a newspaper clipping. The article announced that the SpaceX Crew Dragon 2 would launch at 2:49 am that night. A […]
February 14, 2019
What comes to mind when you hear the term Positive Deviant – an optimistic misfit, an affirming nonconformist, a heavy metal band with uplifting lyrics? In […]
January 22, 2019
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a lot to say about poverty as well as racial injustice. I wrote this post for the Microcredit Summit Campaign’s […]
January 10, 2019
Imagine this: A Stanford sophomore envisions a medical device that can run hundreds of blood tests on just a pinprick of blood. The device would be […]
December 24, 2018
This is a lightly edited version of a meditation that I wrote trying to explain the meaning of Christmas without using the words God or Jesus. I […]
December 19, 2018
At its core, poverty is a social construct. It comes from systems developed by humans. Ending extreme poverty, then, requires changing the systems that create it. […]
November 27, 2018
The Soul of Finance site deals with people and organizations that use finance for good. So, on this Giving Tuesday, I am making my recommendations for […]
November 22, 2018
I have worked for charities all my adult life. When I finished university, I started work with World Relief, where I helped train staff and volunteers […]
November 13, 2018
Sir Fazle Abed is the founder and chairperson of BRAC. Last year at the RESULTS International Conference Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and I interviewed […]