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Traditional Markets for Poverty...
By CIAT, April 2016.
"Key Messages:
- Much of the current research on value chains and market linkages focuses on formal markets, such as supermarkets, while less...
Six of the best sex education...
By Abby Young-Powell for The Guardian, 20 May 2016
“'We cannot achieve gender transformative change by focusing only on health outcomes. We must equip young people with information about...
Shifting Philanthropy from Charity to...
By Dorian O. Burton and Brian C.B. Barnes for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, 3 January 2017
"Historical injustices—perpetuated by racial and cultural conflicts, and exacerbated by a...
Can Financial Inclusion Make a...
By IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa
Central America Regional Conference
Antigua, Guatemala, 17 November 2016
"Introduction
Buenas Noches.
I’m sorry...
Drug-resistant infections and their...
By David Trilling, 12 October 2016.
Citation: Jonas, Olga; et al. “Drug-Resistant Infections: A Threat to Our Economic Future,” World Bank, 2016.
"The issue: Since penicillin was...
Gender equality is ‘impossible’ without...
By Joanne Lu for Humanosphere, 3 October 2016.
"Millions of girls will continue to be at risk unless better statistics and data are gathered to understand the reality of their daily...
Financing sustainable development:...
By Philippe Orliange, Huffington Post, 16 September 2016.
"In the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), the key word is sustainable. Indeed, the word “development” already appeared in the...
Antibiotic Resistance - The case for...
The NNN has been a long-standing proponent for appropriate and collaborative healthcare delivery in Nicaragua. Medical initiatives that unknowingly overlap with one another are...
The Importance of a Human-Centered...
By Nitika Johri, 14 September 2016.
"As the international community prepares for the U.N. General Assembly, or UNGA, meetings this week, it is important to reflect back to just a year ago...
In Nicaragua, Poor Farmers Boost Their...
By Ben Schiller, 8 September 2016.
"About 10 years ago, Kahlil Baker had a good idea. He would pay farmers with spare land to plant trees. The trees would soak up carbon dioxide and, in...
From 2 A.M. to Sundown: A Day in the...
By Lauren Baum for Root Capital, 24 May 2016.
"For 52-year-old Carmen Blandón, her coffee farm is a business. And she’s the boss.
On her two-hectare farm in northern Nicaragua,...
Can enough development professionals...
By Naki B. Mendoza, 18 August 2016.
Aid workers can’t be grouped together with hedge fund managers, nor can the tasks of an NGO program officer be directly compared to those of a Wall...
