In Myanmar’s fast-changing, volatile economic landscape, farmers must prove themselves vital to the mainstream economy, or else risk being shunted aside.

If development professionals thought like designers, they would be much more successful in helping communities lift themselves out of poverty. That’s the argument of Heather Fleming, a PopTech Social Innovation fellow, who recently gave a talk at the Mercy Corps Action Center.

Sudan’s first business-oriented reality show is taking the country by storm, inspiring entrepreneurs in a country where entrepreneurship is rare, undervalued and fraught with challenges.