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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

This is a guest blog by Chia Han Sheng, Brown University '14, co-founder of MedInternational. Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania. He worked in a firm that supported fixed income investments in emerging markets. Reading about these market driven social endeavors is always exciting.

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The Downside of Focusing on Women and Girls

Harvard Business Review

Yesterday was International Women's Day and there were many articles and blog posts championing the idea that anti-poverty philanthropy should focus on women and girls (see, for instance, Mary Ellen Iskendarian's post for The Conversation ). Consider the undeniable costs of a caricatured bias toward women.