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Global Anti-Poverty Targets Tepid

  • By
  • Jamie M. Zimmerman
May 2, 2013
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In his latest installment of global development wonkery for Business Week, our New America Fellow Charles Kenny (whom we share with the Center for Global Development) eloquently argues that the World Bank and IMF’s latest calls to all but rid the world of “extreme poverty” by 2030 are – to put it nicely – not nearly ambitious enough. This line is particularly clutch: “It seems wrong that most of the planet would subsist for a day on what many happily throw away on a [Starbucks Venti Caramel Frappuccino] and . . . that level of expenditure still doesn’t guarantee people a quality of life we should all deserve.” While I’d even argue that income itself as a measure of poverty and inequality falls flat in various and collective efforts to enable prosperity for all around the world – access to savings and asset building opportunities, in addition to income, is likely a much more powerful means of eradicating poverty over the long haul – I salute the audacity and optimism he conveys in this compelling piece and encourage others to check it out.

In The Tank: Player One Has Escaped Poverty

February 28, 2013
If you've ever played Oregon Trail, you probably remember the part where you shot bears and squirrels more than the part where you learned about frontier families. Today, we live in the online age of instant gratification, where you can use real money to buy your digital bears and squirrels instead of hunting them. Can a new social game based on the Half the Sky movement actually educate players about the serious issues girls face in developing countries, or will it be a series of "bear-shooting" moments?

In The Tank: On the Heels of Hillary

February 11, 2013
Hillary Clinton admirers are beginning to wonder: What will become of her women and girls programs and policies - and her focus of 21st Century Statecraft in John Kerry's new State Department? It's only been a few days since he took the wheel, but he's already elevated a couple of items to the top of his agenda: revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and focus on mitigating the region's many conflicts - like civil war in Syria and Iran's controversial nuclear program.

Experts Converge on Beijing to Discuss Lifelong Asset Building

January 28, 2013
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By Katie Stalter, Center for Social Development

This was originally posted on The Center for Social Development's site.

Entrepreneurs Take to the Seas for Inspiration

  • By
  • Eric Tyler,
  • New America Foundation
January 25, 2013 |

What happens when you mix 11 budding startups with Google executives, Stanford professors, a Nobel Peace Laureate and 600 college students and put them on a ship to circumnavigate the world?

An experiment launched this month called Unreasonable at Sea hopes that this eclectic group will unleash global entrepreneurship.

Cell Phone Connectivity Changes Economies, Health Care, Lives Across Globe | National Journal

December 14, 2012

Of the 6 billion mobile subscribers across the globe, 5 billion are in the developing world, said Eric Tyler of the New America Foundation at a Brookings Institution summit on mobile technology Thursday. (Related Atlantic Wire Chart: Percentage of ...

Mobile Technology A Game Changer In Developing World | CIO Magazine

December 14, 2012

Covell points out that there are some 6 billion mobile users in the world. Of those, adds Eric Tyler of the New America Foundation, 5 billion reside in parts of the developing world. And the devices they are using are becoming increasingly ...

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