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Housing and Homelessness: Breaking Down Silos for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation

That’s the perspective taken by the funder collaboration Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), and it drives FHO’s growing emphasis on very affordable housing (meaning housing that’s affordable to those with very low incomes) as a solution to homelessness.

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Understanding Deglobalization: What the Backlash to Trade Liberalization Means for Business Growth and Global Inequality

James Militzer

While there is a continuing debate around who has reaped the greatest rewards from globalization, a key consideration from an economic development perspective is how trade impacts the production possibilities of firms and the earnings of workers in LMICs. High-income countries are arguably the biggest proponents of this retrenchment.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Given the devastating economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and girls, the imperative to mark International Women’s Day carries more weight than usual this year. . Ardern was praised for her government’s aggressive containment of the COVID-19 pandemic last year — her country reported just 25 deaths. Heather Clancy.