November 7, 2018
Leticia (not her real name) knew that her parents were depending on her to move the family out of the poverty that had snared them for […]
November 1, 2018
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 […]
October 16, 2018
Abia nodded as she listened to the woman who said she worked for BRAC, one of the world’s largest and best nonprofits, located in Bangladesh. Abia […]
October 10, 2018
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 […]
September 25, 2018
A review of the book Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth Every day the news provides us with more examples of how we as humans continue to fail […]
September 12, 2018
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 […]
September 6, 2018
I would like my buying decisions to line up with my values. I want to know that the companies I buy from treat the planet, their […]
August 29, 2018
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. […]
August 16, 2018
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, […]
August 16, 2018
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, […]
August 1, 2018
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 […]
July 24, 2018
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 […]