Fear of failure
Recent Legatum Center workshop discusses fear, and examines ways to overcome it in entrepreneurial pursuits.
Climate change: a developing challenge for poor nations
MIT and U.N. researchers team up to tackle some of the heftiest climate change challenges developing countries will face as they confront an uncertain future.
Ekaterina Paramonova: A nuclear networker
Undergraduate on a unique career track that intriguingly combines nuclear engineering and diplomacy.
The economic cost of increased temperatures
Study: Warming episodes hurt poor countries and limit long-term growth.
Student teams tackle Third World health care issues
LGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects
In the World: MIT-designed cooler preserves tuberculosis drugs, records doses
A simple cooler could help patients battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.
IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: True Africa
Improving access to local businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the World: Design summit’s inventions find willing buyers
Devices to improve lives in developing countries are so appealing that even the initial prototypes attract buyers.
Wisdom of crowds
In countries that lack financial records, how can we tell who is truly poor? An innovative study suggests: Ask the neighbors.
Satellites in the developing world
An MIT researcher looks at a growing trend in a number of developing countries: national satellite programs.
‘Radar for the human eye’
Inexpensive hand-held device developed at MIT could detect cataracts even at the earliest stages.
Taxation without documentation
New study shows ‘informal taxation’ in developing countries is far greater than suspected, supporting public works — and adding a burden for the poor.