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These days, it’s not just about measuring how much change has happened. Increasingly, the focus is on the value of that change in anything from, say, the value of amenity trees to the value of low-level dementia. The challenge now is not so much how to measure, but which measurement approach should I use for a particular outcome?
Measure for Measure Series: Data, data everywhere? Creating bottom up approach to harnessing informationNews
Developing countries are increasingly opening up more to crucial trade routes, which connect them to world value chains.
Aid for Trade — can it really reduce poverty?News
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind rest of world, with targets on child and maternal deaths, and sanitation significantly off-target
Environment, education and health need urgent progress, says MDG reportNews
We've come a long way since my early days as the associate medical director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s and 1990s.By 1990, I had seen over 500 patients die from a disease that we just couldn't treat. As an infectious disease doctor, I was overcome not only by the tragic loss of life, but also by the inability to find the "magic bullet" to help prevent these deaths.
Opinion: An AIDS-free generation is within sightBlog Post
UN statistics indicate that some 67 new low-income housing units are needed somewhere in the world every minute. BoP housing and related infrastructure is massively ripe for investment, with an estimated profit potential of between US$ 177 and US$ 648 billion up to the year 2020. So why hasn’t this investment happened? Unfortunately, there are a number of reasons.
What´s Holding Back the BoP Housing Sector?: The need is clear – so where’s the investment?News
When General Wesley K. Clark first heard about the idea of impact investing, he was skeptical. One trip to Angola convinced him that it had the potential to lift people out of poverty in ways that philanthropy and humanitarian aid could not. “This is the only way it will work,” he told me.
Does Impact Investing Work? Vital Capital Case Study Shows It DoesBlog Post
Paul Clyde is an itinerant economic adviser and faculty member at the University of Michigan. He has advised or run over 40 projects in 10 emerging markets, helping develop financially sustainable health care delivery models. In part 1 of this Q&A, he talks about the BoP health care sector’s evolution, and gives a frank assessment of existing business models.
No Fortune at the BoP?: Globe-trotting economist Paul Clyde on the promise (and limitations) of health care delivery models that serve the poor – Part 1News
Mexico's microfinancing bank Compartamos, accused by activists of exploiting poor borrowers with exorbitant interest rates, has generally helped people but could cut the interest it charges without hurting its bottom line, a pair of studies has found.
Studies on Mexican microlender shed light on profit, poverty
