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The digital world makes it easier for us to do good through everyday actions, but often these acts feed our egos more than they feed the poor.

Climate change pushes refugees into circumstances without protection or refugee status, economic value and social value are not necessarily mutually exclusive and coups beget coups. Staff picks: what we're reading this week.

Andean farmers have enjoyed an economic bonanza from growing quinoa. But the farmers' success may prove their undoing, as farmers in the United States and Canada have begun growing the grain.

Toms’ buy-one, give-one corporate philanthropy model has repeatedly come under fire from critics for doing more harm than good. But the shoe company's recent efforts to evolve its giving model still fall short.

Solar was once the wild west of alternative energy. Today, microfinance banks see it as a solid investment, even for poor clients, and bio-gas may follow its footsteps.