News: Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package? -- by Mark Pauly, Ashley Swanson

24 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

This note considers a relatively new form of financing for social services, the "Social Impact Bond." Proponents of Social Impact Bonds argue that they present a solution to s...

Blog: Time for Change—Shifting Energy Spending in Africa

iMFdirect 56 days ago

News: The role of social entrepreneurs

97 days ago - Forum:Blog

The expansion of social services in developing countries offers the greatest opportunity for social entrepreneurs to create systemic change. In the world of social entrepreneu...

News: Survival tips for introverts in high network environments

119 days ago - Forum:Blog

The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos is not the easiest event for me – I have a serious disability: I’m an introvert. Dana, my (much) better half, ...

News: Training and employing youth, looking to the future

122 days ago - Forum:Blog

I’m heading off to the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about training of young people, to me a major challenge that will have profound impacts upon the world we live i...

News: Beyond cowboy and Indian movies: Resilience among the tribes

128 days ago - Forum:Blog

A population that rarely registers in the world’s consciousness is undergoing a profound and instructive renaissance. Since European contact, American Indian tribes have end...

News: The Social Science Of Economics - Predation, Victimization And Violence Endorsed By The State - Part Five. Republican Views On Social Darwinism Seemingly Align With Nazi Germany

183 days ago - Rantings on Markets, Economics and Business Strategy

I'm going to spend the year filling in some of the posts I promised throughout the year.   As this is a short week where we celebrate our freedom, I thought this was...

News: Closing Remarks By President Barroso Following The Debate On The Conclusions Of The European Council Meeting Of 18-19 October 2012

212 days ago - News Articles

Regarding the assessment of this European Council, some of you have probably noted that in my initial statement I mentioned three European Council Summits and I made it on pur...

News: From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics -- by Eli Berman, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Giuseppe Ragusa

262 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite low female labor force participation. We model three cha...

News: On the Grass with Genevieve Tran

300 days ago - Steve Keen's Debtwatch

As noted in an earlier blog post (A Galilean Gesture: Eating with Dr. Steve Keen), one of the attendees at the talk Jim Stanford and the  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternat...