Exporting Clothes, Importing Safety
Roads and Kingdoms In an unprecedented campaign, thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factories are struggling to become safe places to work GO TO ARTICLE At a garment factory on the outskirts […]
Category Archives: Business solutions to poverty
Q&A: Why Microfinance Loans Have Such High Rates — and More
Wall Street Journal August 11, 2015 GO TO ARTICLE In recent years, microfinance—distributing small loans to the poor—has been at the center of an intense debate about the ethics of […]
Climate Change-Ready Rice Keeps Farmers’ Fields Fertile
NPR (National Public Radio) June 4, 2015 In southern Bangladesh, bright green rice paddies stretch into the distance. But in the village of Gholgholia, rice in one paddy grows unevenly. […]
Farming on Water to Prevent the Effects of Climate Change
The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh New York Times November 18, 2014 Photo Villagers in northwest Bangladesh tending a floating farm. Credit Amy Yee CHARBHANGURA, Bangladesh — Each year the brown […]
Bangladesh’s Chance to Get It Right
New York Times, Fixes April 23, 2014 Bangladesh is hardly known for its workplace safety. But one unlikely success story can be found in a leading shipbuilding company called Western […]
Filling India’s Huge Need for Vocational Training
International Herald Tribune June 3, 2013 Millions of youths seek practical instruction in market-friendly skills GHAZIABAD, India: In a simple classroom above a storefront on a bustling street, four young men […]
Microhydro Drives Change in Rural Nepal
International Herald Tribune June 20, 2012 BAGLUNG, NEPAL — In Rangkhani, a remote mountain village in western Nepal, a 12- hour walk on steep dirt roads from Baglung, the district’s […]
Liter By Liter, Indians Get Cleaner Water
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 In the developing world, providing safe drinking water remains a major infrastructure and public health challenge. In 1990 about 34 percent of Indians lacked […]
Biogas Offers Poor Countries a Cleaner, Safer Fuel
International Herald Tribune October 27, 2011 NEPALGANJ, NEPAL — Here’s an unlikely starting point for clean energy: No toilets, and plenty of dung. In developing countries where domestic animals are […]
Soil Renewal Puts Pakistan’s Poor on Stronger Ground
International Herald Tribune November 16, 2011 LAHORE, PAKISTAN — In the Pakistani village of Sharbaga, about 130 kilometers from Lahore, a 70-year-old farmer named Mohammed Ali and his wife plant […]
