Beyond Mobile Phones: Will Virtual Nurses and Drones Deliver Healthcare in Africa?
BY MARTA MILKOWSKA “This technology will save millions of patients!” This was the elated comment from the head of a
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Trials and Tribulations: Relevance Beyond the Poverty Lab
BY COURTNEY HAN The early 2000s was a heady time to be a researcher in Busia, Kenya. The town along
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Are Global Goals Always Good? Reflections on the first anniversary of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
BY GRANT TUDOR September 25 marks the first anniversary of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a list of global
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Raising and Indexing the Federal Minimum Wage: An Ethical and Economic Imperative
BY ADAM LAROSE In an era of federal congressional gridlock and lack of movement on issues with the likes of
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Poverty is not a Culture: The weight of scarcity on American social mobility
BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY, PANGYRUS This article is being published in collaboration with Pangyrus. Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for
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America, Decoupled: Fighting the Trend
Note: This is part 2 of a 2 part series. Read Brian’s first post here. Photo credit: Michael S. Williamson (source here).
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