The effect of corruption on business
Strong laws and trustworthy institutions protect investors and businesses from corruption. That's why the different approaches of the U.S. and China matter.
How U.S. aid avoids ‘debt-trap diplomacy’
Sometimes foreign loans and investment come with strings attached.
Want to help end poverty? There’s an app for that.
How can I best help the poor? Could I survive as a refugee? The British website Training Zone picked five mobile learning apps that...
Matt Damon says he won’t use a toilet. Here’s why.
More people have cellphones than have access to a toilet. About 6 billion people have cellphones and only 4.5 billion have access to a...
Coffee can generate electricity
ECPA was created at the 2012 Summit of the Americas to help provide universal electricity to Latin America. Watch how it shows how to reuse coffee as fuel.
Harvard study warns of perilous ‘debt-trap diplomacy’
According to a report from Harvard University scholars, more than a dozen countries in the Indo-Pacific region are vulnerable to "debt-trap diplomacy."
Clean water, better lives
When you think about how to build a better world, think about providing clean water to about 663 million people worldwide who don’t have it.
Building a new world for the new millennium
At the turn of the century, as much as 10 percent of the world's children died before they reached their fifth birthday, and one-fourth...
U.S. companies help rebuild Iraq
Post-ISIS Iraq has embarked on rebuilding its battered economy and is looking abroad for private sector partners to tackle major reconstruction projects.