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March 18, 2020
Every month hundreds of millions of people around the world meet in groups to receive financial services. Will these groups turn into vectors for #COVID-19 or will they help flatten the curve?
February 25, 2020
Pain shows us where things are going wrong so that we will pay attention and fix them. When we don’t feel pain, we end up ignoring the signals that tell us we are in danger.
February 11, 2020
An article in the Kewanee Star Courier on the PERC program started by the Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Microfinance Group
February 6, 2020
“Just Tell Me What Poverty Means” Like Shaq and Kobe, Martín Burt and Luis Fernando Sanabria form a team for the ages. Martin, Executive Director of […]
January 20, 2020
In the year before his death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. published the book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In one of […]
December 3, 2019
Last year I posted my recommendations for giving on Giving Tuesday (for those not living in the US, this is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving). This year […]
October 9, 2019
A review of the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling Am I Safe? If you talk to the people who run TV newsrooms about how they decide […]
September 30, 2019
Can You Beat a Chimpanzee? You may ace every news quiz you take, but how well does that help you know what has been going on […]
September 12, 2019
The Business Roundtable (BRT) now believes that businesses should pursue social objectives in addition to profits. I wrote a post about it a couple weeks ago. […]
September 12, 2019
The Business Roundtable (BRT) now believes that businesses should pursue social objectives in addition to profits. I wrote a post about it a couple weeks ago. […]