In the World: Health care in the palm of a hand
MIT-led student team develops mobile-device software to help improve health-care accessibility in remote regions.
Haiti’s plight
MIT anthropologist Erica James examines the psychological damage inflicted on the island nation’s inhabitants.
Moving in circles
MIT scholar’s new book scrutinizes the successes and failures of a unique government experiment meant to help America’s urban poor.
In the World: Clean Water for Ghana
MIT students help a researcher build a factory that could provide water filters for 1 million people in northern Ghana
Esther Duflo wins Clark medal
MIT’s influential poverty researcher heralded as best economist under age 40.
3 Questions: Bill Gates on MIT
After speaking about the importance of giving back, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder spoke to MIT News about innovation and learning at MIT
The deep roots of inequality
MIT economics student’s study of Peru shows how practices from hundreds of years ago can influence prosperity today. ‘Pathbreaking,’ says a Harvard economist.
Bill Gates to visit MIT on April 21
In a presentation at Kresge Auditorium, the philanthropist will discuss the importance of service.
Initiative targets poor farmers in Africa
By understanding why Africa has not yet adopted technologies and practices that can dramatically boost productivity, researchers hope to improve farmers’ lives.
Data points of light
MIT’s undergraduates fight poverty one statistic at a time, thanks to coordination between the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Saving labor
Political scientist Richard Locke says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken.
He proposes a new solution.
Entrepreneurship, government and development in Africa
Hosted by The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
'Genius' grant for MIT economist
Esther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world