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Social Enterprise

Link: How to Track the U.N.'s 17 Developmental Goals for 2030

The U.N. gave the world 15 years to achieve 17 substantial goals. Now you can track their progress.

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Puerto Rico: Still Reeling From Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents have continued to struggle as the country’s reconstruction drags on and they wait for basic necessities like homes, electricity and water.

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Sustainable Energy

Link: How Helping Ourselves Can Hurt the Planet

NPR's Goats and Soda explores a new study on how improving humans' quality of life may destroy the planet.

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Social Enterprise

Where is Global Health Headed?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is known for being an optimistic global health leader. A new report published by the foundation shows how they're thinking differently.

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Value Chains

Numbers to Note for the Rio Olympics

A list of numbers featuring Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic season.

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Social Enterprise

The Crisis of the World Humanitarian Summit

The first World Humanitarian Summit asks us to consider how we frame humanitarianism — and how we fight for it.

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Value Chains

Impact Investing 101: Prioritizing poverty through profitability?

Progress comes with a price tag--and a substantial one at that. Could a new form of investment be the answer?

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Global Ideas News Brief: Red Cross aid scandal

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovation.

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Social Enterprise

Slums, gadgets, and public health: technologies that could save the world’s poorest

Millions go without basic sanitation in the developing world's slums. But some innovators are working to fix that.

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Value Chains

A new tool for better land management in the Brazilian Amazon

How can we stop the illegal deforestation of the Amazon and better manage the land resources? A new tech solution launched this week gets a big step closer.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Africa--Seeing past the headlines

Elizabeth Littlefield argues that we promote two starkly different images of sub-Saharan Africa and overlook the true opportunities this diverse continent has to offer.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Stop making the same mistakes

Paul Farmer, "the man who would cure the world," has several things to say about our handling of the Ebola epidemic.

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Social Enterprise

Polio Surge in Pakistan: A cautionary tale for global health

On the 50th anniversary of Jonas Salk's discovery of a vaccine against polio, the disease has faded from the headlines - but a flare-up in Pakistan proves that polio is not going quietly.