Campaign Art: Pão dos Pobres
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Globally, significant progress has been achieved in elevating the...
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Quote of the Week: Malala Yousafzai
"I want to bring change to my whole country. On the spot, I could only help one or two children, but if I want to help the whole country then I need to be a politician.” - Malala Yousafzai, an...
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Realization of the Dream
For the last 15 years, I have been a Sociology Professor in private and public institutions of higher education in the Metropolitan area of Washington, DC. Every year, every semester, I was able to...
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How Soap Operas and Cable TV Promote Women’s Rights and Family Planning
Taking a break from the How Change Happens book this week to head off to Harvard for a Matt Andrews/ODI seminar on ‘Doing Development Differently’ + a day at Oxfam America on Friday. Will report back,...
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Blog Post of the Month: Realization of the Dream
Each month People, Spaces, Deliberation shares the blog post that generated the most interest and discussion. In October 2014, the most popular blog post was "Realization of the Dream" by Leszek...
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The Things We Do: How Goals Corrupt
China has a long tradition of burying the dead and building tombs to honor them. This ancient practice, however, has recently been butting heads with modernity as the Chinese government now needs to...
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#9 from 2014: Exit, Voice, and Service Delivery for the Poor
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2014. This post was originally posted on January 08, 2014Inspired by Jeremy Adelman’s wonderful biography of Albert Hirschman (Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey...
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#6 from 2014: Scaling up Development: Learning Innovations and the Open...
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2014. This post was originally posted on February 19, 2014 Learning is a key accelerator for development. In fact, knowledge and learning are intricately...
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A Storied Approach to Capacity Development
Engaging individuals to share their knowledge and learning on development challenges and solutions with the wider community is a core value of the WBG’s Open Learning Campus. In this context the...
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Technology Alone Will Not Save the World: Lessons from the 2015 Gates Letter
Melinda and Bill Gates have made an annual tradition of publishing their thoughts on international development and its key challenges. Given the substance, I assume these letters reflect an annual...
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Cycling Is Everyone’s Business
This post is also available in French.“I’ve seen some of the highest performance bicycles in the world, but I believe the most powerful bicycle is the one in the hands of a girl fighting for her...
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Blog post of the month: Cycling is everyone’s business
This post is also available in French and Spanish.“I’ve seen some of the highest performance bicycles in the world, but I believe the most powerful bicycle is the one in the hands of a girl fighting...
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Education Literally Saved My Life
As a former elementary secondary school teacher in Poland and as a current college educator in the United States, I have been exposed to many different approaches to educational or pedagogical...
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If we don’t assess, how will we learn? Assessments are critical to learning,...
Are assessments and standardized tests critical to measuring the effectiveness of educational systems? How can communities demand accountability from local schools? Suvojit Chattopadhyay argues that...
View ArticleCampaign Art: End illiteracy and inter-generational poverty
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. International Literacy Day is observed globally on 8 September as a...
View ArticleCampaign Art: Wedding vows of poverty
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Although illegal in most countries, child marriage remains a common...
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The 2016 Multidimensional Poverty Index was launched last week. What does it...
This is at the geeky, number-crunching end of my spectrum, but I think it’s worth a look (and anyway, they asked nicely). The 2016 Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index was published yesterday. It now covers...
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Blog post of the month: The 2016 Multidimensional Poverty Index was launched...
Each month People, Spaces, Deliberation shares the blog post that generated the most interest and discussion. In June 2016, the featured blog post is "The 2016 Multidimensional Poverty Index was...
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Ask before you watch: How to get the most out of learning videos
Welcome to the fourth blog of the technology aided gut (TAG) checks series. In our last post we showed you how to be reasonably confident that the information you find from an online resource is...
View ArticleHow to achieve social transformation through innovation with Marcelo Cabrol
Marcelo Cabrol is close to turn 50, and has more curiosity than ever for ideas that can transform the world. I interviewed Marcelo about how to achieve transformation in order to solve the many...
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