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• How Haiti is fighting poverty by killing cash
  By Margo Conner, January 26, 2012
  [img:1 align=center title=bottom] This article was republished by The Christian Science...
• Payment for protection: an innovative program boosts incomes and saves trees
  By Erik Mandell, January 25, 2012
  A new program in Brazil is turning tragedy on its head by paying the poor to preserve their natural...
• Microfinance can energize local economies
  By Jean Payton, January 5, 2012
  Is microfinance the solution to energy poverty? If partnered with renewable energy, it could prove...
• Tom's Shoes succeeds at marketing, but Warby Parker wins for a better anti-poverty model
  By Monica Gerber, December 18, 2011
  This article was republished in The Christian Science Monitor. We already know that good...
• In Africa, female scientists should power female farmers, group says
  By Jean Payton, December 1, 2011
  Women comprise 43 percent of the world’s farmers. In Africa, it’s 80 percent. Women plant...

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