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  • A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

    Tina Rosenberg

    May 22, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Nyanza

    For-profit companies are making good private schools available even to Africa’s poor. They can do it – and can do it on an enormous scale – by hiring neighborhood residents to teach, and scripting out every word of every lesson on an e-reader.

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  • Where Private School Is Not a Privilege

    Tina Rosenberg

    May 08, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive NGOs, has built new schools addressing all the reasons, at home and school, that were preventing children from attending.

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  • When Food Isn't the Answer to Hunger

    Tina Rosenberg

    April 24, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Aceh

    In a lot of places, food is available and the market is working but people are too poor to buy it, so cash donations are more effective than food. Previously U.S. aid laws did not allow cash donations but a new proposal could change that.

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  • The Power of Talking to Your Baby

    Tina Rosenberg

    April 10, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    By the time a poor child is three, she will have heard 30 million fewer words than a 3-year-old child from a professional family. Research shows that word gap is what makes the poor less likely to do well in school. The city of Providence, RI, is doing something about it.

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  • The Destructive Influence of Imaginary Peers

    Tina Rosenberg

    March 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, DeKalb, Illinois

    People grossly overestimate how much their peers are drinking, having unprotected sex and getting fat. Instead of exaggerating the problem, the best way to get people to take care of themselves is to bust that myth and tell them the truth: most people behave well.

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  • The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

    Tina Rosenberg

    March 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The mobile phone is doing more than revolutionizing communication. It has the potential to improve many aspects of life in poor countries: commerce, health, agriculture, education - public health, especially, is being revolutionized by governments taking advantage of the mobile revolution by texting advice or sending voice messages to pregnant women, texting reminders to AIDS patients to take their meds, tracking the spread of diseases, allowing community health workers to keep records electronically and variations on all these themes.

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  • When Deviants Do Good

    Tina Rosenberg

    February 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Hanoi

    Tuft University is training global organizations a new approach to create long lasting change. The process teaches locals to identify positive deviance in their community and design a way to spread the behavior, with only local ideas and administration.

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  • Avoiding the Curse of the Oil-Rich Nations

    Tina Rosenberg

    February 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska has created a way for residents to financially benefit from the state's dependence on oil revenues. By giving residents a yearly portion of the revenue, the state has been able to see positive effects from an often conflict-ridden industry.

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  • Leading the Way Out of Debt

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 30, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Neighborhood Trust is a New York-based nonprofit offering financial advice to individuals experiencing economic hardships. Providing hands-on coaching, counselors are able to inform their clients about financial options they may have otherwise not known about like college financial aid or child care tax credits.

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  • A Hospital Network With a Vision

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 16, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

    Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.

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