 The Kasiisi Porridge Project Story
Nancy Merrick An innovative NGO in Uganda has helped bring daily porridge to hungry schoolchildren, and it is now expanding with a 20-acre multipurpose farm and indigenous forest to make the project sustainable. |
Microinequalities Inflicted on Women Samantha Brennan, Christian Barry, Matt Peterson Why is it that a woman can lead a country, yet women are slower to be served in coffee shops? In the West, women and men share equal status under the law. But in countless practical ways, women experience inequality on a daily basis. |
Enforcement Not Extinction This position paper from the Environmental Investigation Agency outlines a range of global law enforcement strategies that are key to the survival of the wild tiger. Key among them is reducing demand for tiger and big cat parts. |
Guatemalan Bicycle Machines Relieve Manual Labor Maya Pedal Guatemala transforms donated bicycles into a range of labor-saving machines that would otherwise require electricity or manual labor, and they openly share their mechanical mashups with tinkerers around the world. |
ETHICS MATTER: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter Anne-Marie Slaughter, Julia Taylor Kennedy Anne-Marie Slaughter on the responsibility to protect: I believe in a values-based foreign policy and looking to cooperate as often as I can. I also think that's basic self-interest. We don't do well when we go in without the support of other nations. |
Resolving the Food Crisis Timothy Wise, Sophia Murphy The recent spikes in global food prices served as a wake-up call to the global community, but what has really changed in the global policy response? |
Solar Cells Built from Plant Waste MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material. |
U.S. Free Trade Agreement Won't Benefit Colombia Kevin Gallagher The now-official U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will dampen growth and make it harder for Colombia to put in place policies for innovation and industrialization, writes Kevin Gallagher. Colombia will also have fewer tools to confront financial instability. |
Capital Controls: Protectionism or Market Correction? Kevin Gallagher In the Myth of Financial Protectionism, Kevin Gallagher argues that capital controls tend to correct for market failures due to imperfect information, contagion, and uncertainty. |
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