Governance

The possibility for a strong entrepreneurial market is great in Pakistan. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerega/4406977310/sizes/m/in/photostream/"> zerega (flickr)</a>

share

Youth Skills

Pakistan has every ingredient for growth … except entrepreneurship

Pakistan is at the top of South Asian economies, but by underproducing a crucial product, young entrepreneurs, it's stymied from reaching new heights.

share

The history of climate change negotiations in 83 seconds

By increasing the amount of food harvested per year, Bangladesh has been able to decrease the number of undernourished people<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/8054518284/sizes/z/in/set-72157603951157081/">World Bank (flickr)</a>

share

Financial Inclusion

Fighting poverty without rapid growth: Bangladesh shows how it's done

Bangladesh is living proof that empowering and assisting the poor can sharply cut poverty even without rapid growth.

What system provides jobs for African youth? Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/noxstar/7190911722/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> Espen Faugstad(Flickr)</a>

share

Youth Skills

Four sensible ideas for helping African youth gain meaningful employment

Following a new movement to increase youth employment, the African Economic Outlook (AEO) published a

The structure of foreign aid is about to change. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60881556@N05/5566653522/">Doctorwonder (Flickr)</a>

share

Value Chains

Dear traditional development assistance: The end is near

In a speech last week at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reminded development practitioners, politicos and philanthropists that their ultimate goal is to put themselves out of business.

Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer in Gaza. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps.

share

Q&A with Mercy Corps CEO about market innovations to poverty

Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer and NextBillion's editor Scott Anderson discuss where Mercy Corps is heading and how its past has informed its future, especially when it comes to business development.

NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof faces criticism that his coverage of war, poverty and violence is detrimental for Africa. Photo:Henry McInnes/Sunday Mail for Mercy Corps

share

Twitter debate questions media’s impact on Africa’s prosperity

Zimbabwean students receive school supplies through a MercyCorps program. Photo: Richard Nyamanhindi for MercyCorps

share

Progress in Zimbabwe? Foreign currencies stave off a collapse

Zimbabwe isn’t often the source of good news, but monetary stability seems to have delivered progress in one of the world’s worst economies. Now, the country’s continued improvements depend on still-questionable political stability.

See the full infographic on <a href="http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1205/after-the-arab-spring/flash.html?source=9840&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Twitter_updates&utm_content=ArabSpring%2BInfographic%2BMay23">GOOD.IS</a>.

share

What Arab youth still want: jobs

Arab youth know what caused the uprisings a year ago. What they want to know is how their day-to-day lives will improve once the fanfare of elections subsides.

share

Honduras: Up for sale

Jeffrey Garten explored the massive shifts taking place in the global economy with an audience at<a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/portland"> Mercy Corps' Action Center</a>. Photo: Kyla Springer/Mercy Corps.

share

Yale economist to world: Don't panic. Embrace uncertainty and innovation.

Presented by Jeffrey Garten at Mercy Corps

The world is not ending, and the sky is not falling. But the rise of the global South and East promises to reward the world's most innovative risk-takers.

A new mapping tool ties climate change to humanitarian issues including conflict and displacement in countries like Somalia. Photo: <a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/displacement">Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps</a>

share

Maps to the rescue: New tool shows climate-driven clashes across Africa

The U.S. military is targeting an unorthodox foe in the battle for political stability in Africa: climate change.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo: U.S. State Department.

share

Clinton announces $44 million social innovation commitment

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week announced a $44 million commitment with the Skoll Foundation to scale up game-changing global poverty innovations.

share

Mercy Corps responds to U.S. Farm Bill reforms

Last Friday, Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) and Ranking Member Pat Roberts (R-Kan) presented a draft Farm Bill to the Senate Agriculture Committee.