D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Sidhant Pai, Zehra Ali, and Matthew Orosz to receive funding and mentorship over 12-month fellowship.
3 Questions: Johannes Haushofer on the psychology of poverty
Does a mental “feedback loop” prevent the poorest from exploring ways to change their lives?
How a health care plan quickly lowered infant mortality
Study: Improved hospital access lowered infant death rate among Thailand’s poor within a year.
Mobile money helps Kenyans weather financial storms
New study shows how electronic cash transfers help people cope with income problems.
Teaching urban development in the global South
A five-year program to strengthen university teaching materials
Targeting product design for the developing world
The key, MIT study finds, is designing products that make money for the microentrepreneur.
How anti-poverty programs go viral
Study: Getting the well-connected to spread the word helps more people learn about microfinance programs in rural India.
Deep in the field
Book details how economist Robert Townsend has spent two decades in rural Thailand, exploring the links between household finances and economic growth.