By Brian Williams
Most Westerners did not know anything about microfinance until Muhammad Yunus, an early initiator in the field, won the Nobel Prize in 2006. However, microfinance has been a tool for poverty alleviation since …

by Steven Lawry
I argued in Part II of this series that foundations as private organizations are freer than public funders to get behind new and untested ideas for reducing poverty that show promise. Foundations are …