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Travelogue: Colombia

Travelogue: India

Travelogue: Nepal

Persistent Poverty in Nations: A Review of the Theories

The Convergence: America’s Long Arc of Development

The Ethical Obligations of Writing About Poverty and Conflict

Do For-Profit Schools Give Low-Income Children A Real Choice?

The Sad Aftermath of the Nairobi Attack

Thoughts on the Nairobi Terrorist Attack

A Tribute to My Friend, Ravi Ramrattan

The Hult Prize: Food Security in Urban Slums

M-Prep: Democratizing Education Achievement

Develop Economies Is Published, Makes $200!

Technology Sea Changes: Re:Char and Kiva Zip

The Problem of Rural Education in the Philippines

What “Why You Should Travel Young” Misses

The Promise of Social Impact Bonds

The Intangible Wealth of Nations

Why Poverty Persists in America

The Idea of Travel as a Search

Kenya Enacts Bad Immigration Policy

Dambisa Moyo: Right and Wrong About China in Africa

Effectiveness of Agriculture Development

HIV-Positive in Philadelphia vs. Uganda

Luck of the Draw: Poverty and Success

Happy Father’s Day (Develop Economies Becomes a Book)

Reflections on Traveling the World

What Do I Think of Microfinance?

How to Start Working in Social Enterprise

The End of an Era: Leaving Nairobi

Should You Pay a Bribe?

A Trip to Bridge International Academies

Burma Finally Opens Up

Why Jim Kim is Right for the World Bank

A Meta-Travel Writing Piece

Desperation in the Slums of Nairobi

How to Get Around the World

Stealing an Education in Fairfield County

The Link Between Poverty and Terrorism

Pushing Back on the Millenium Villages

Design for Social Innovation at the iHub

Brain Gain: The Upside of Losing Talent Abroad

Mitigating Political Risk for Investors in Africa

Crowdsourcing Funding for Projects in Africa

Yes to Industrial Agriculture in Tanzania

Non-Profit Career Advice: Urban Development

A Tale of Two Education Systems: Finland & India

Develop Economies Returns to Kenya

Global Diasporas Create Economic Prosperity

The U.S. Must Pay Its Debts to Its Iraqi Allies

Wal-Mart (Does Not) Come to India

Preventing the Next Pandemic with Cell Phones

The Strategic Value of Burma

Primary Education and Economic Growth

How to Travel Alone

Population and Poverty in the Philippines

Advice to the Amateurs: Ignore the Professionals

Africa Rising: Venture Capital on the Continent

"Depravity" or Circumstance? The Nature of Poverty

The Rugged Altruists

The Myths and Realities of Impact Investing

Trust and the Invisible Hand in Agriculture

Perceptions of China and the US in Kenya

A Toaster in Every Kitchen: Growing Demand in Developing Nations

Technology Evolution and Revolution in Africa

The China-Africa Trade Boom

Thoughts on the Film "Blood Diamond"

Saving as a Group

The Unintended Consequences of Female Empowerment

Fewer Farms, Bigger Farms

Insite: A Step Beyond a Needle Exchange

Corruption in the Education Sector

Mobile Community Health in Northern Ghana

M-Pesa and Mobile Money in Kenya

Dispatch from a Shrinking Planet

Does Per Capita GDP Matter?

The Challenges for Public Education in Ghana

Develop Economies Moves to Kenya

The Economics of Solar Lanterns with Mobile Charging Stations

The Silver Bullet of Conditional Cash Transfers

Kiva Launches Green Loans Category

Cutting Foreign Aid is a Bad Idea

Market Facilitation and the Benefits of NGOs

The Battle for the Soul of Microfinance

’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises

Active Social Enterprise Incubators in the Philippines

A Brief History of Fresh Pineapple Exports in Ghana

Let Them Eat Cash: The New Approach to Food Aid

Risky Loans and the Financial Crisis

Hapinoy Is An Open Source Model for Low-Income Markets

Using a Microfranchise as an Open-Source Platform

Seeing the Pineapple Supply Chain Come Full Circle

Nicholas Kristof and the Marketing of Development

Impact Investing Takes Off

Invisible Barriers: Land Tenure for Women in Ghana

The Anthropology of Food: Adobo in the Philippines

Energy Financing to the Poor Made “Simple”

Are Conditional Cash Transfers Really the Answer?

The Road to Agricultural Self-Sufficiency in Africa

Cote D'Ivoire and the "Big Man" Leader

Crisis in Cote D’Ivoire: How Political Instability Alters Trade Patterns

My Role in Technoserve and ADVANCE in Ghana

Aversion to Government-Run Development Programs

The Pope Endorses Safe Sex

A New Chapter

Do Elections Improve Economic Policy?

Microbusinesses as Start-Ups and the Problem of Flexibility

Oil and the Natural Resource Curse

The Changing Microfinance Industry in India

A Community Development Bank Struggles

“A Core Pillar of American Power”

Wrapping up in the Philippines

"Commercialization" as a Code Word

The Value Proposition of Microfinance

The Awareness Dilemma: How Nicholas Kristof Gets Us to Care

Opportunities for Modernization in Burma

Tragedy in Kenya

The Rise of Asia’s Middle Class

Introduction to a Series of Essays

An Unfortunate Black Mark for the Philippines

Defining Poverty in the United States

Interview with Erik Wurster of E+Co

Oil Spills in Nigeria and Dutch Disease

Child Soldiers and Intractable Conflicts

Harnessing Dirt for Electicity

Charter Cities as a Development Strategy

Carbon Credit Financing in the Developing World

The Volatility of $2 a Day

The Complexities of Poverty and Development Strategies

Conditional Cash Transfers as a Tool of Poverty Alleviation

Challenges with Government Microfinance

The "Entrepreneur Myth" Myth

Competition, Saturation, Interest Rates, and Microfinance

A Question of Impact

A New Way Forward on Global Development

Beard Update #3

Industrial Agriculture and Solutions to World Hunger

How the Media Discusses Microfinance

Microfinance and Job Creation

A Trip to Thailand

Promoting Microfinance for Small- and Medium-Enterprises

The Tradeoffs of Serving the Poorest

Hello, This is Manila. How Can I Help You?

Addressing Rural Electrification with Microsolar

Talisay to Bago: A Day’s Work

Interviewing Borrowers for Kiva Loans

Green Products and the Triple Bottom Line

Cooking Styles of the Philippines

Expanding Kiva to More Branches

A Trip to Cebu

Husbands and Wives in Microfinance

Mass Weddings for the Poor

Hapinoy: A New Business Model for Sari-Sari Stores

Baudelaire and the Red Horse

How Community Loans Work

Mobile Banking in the Philippines

Deal or No Deal

Microfinance Investing for SMEs

Beard Difficulties

A Quarter-Century of Microfinance Lending

Mr. Inasal and Me

Profit motives in Microfinance

Dancing in the Philippines

Grameen Bank Replication and the Principles of Microfinance

A Typical Microfinance Borrower

In The Field

Organized Chaos