The COVID-19 crisis has caused a wave of development reversals, particularly affecting marginalized communities. It is expected to push 150 million people globally into extreme poverty and increase child labor to 169 million – reversing nearly two decades of...
Guest post by Lea Esterhuizen. Lea is a social research methodologist and founder of &Wider. The blog post first appeared on the Ethical Supply Chains Blog on Friday, April 15. Click here for the original. In the field of ethical trade, there are multiple...
This blog post first appeared on the ICT Works blog on December 21, 2015. Click here for the original. With the landmark UN Sustainable Development Summit over, the discussion is now shifting to the question of how to operationalize the 17 ambitions goals in the...
Robert Solow, economist at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1987, once famously noted that one “can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Today, a similar paradox is emerging between the rise of sustainability investment and the...
Chances are that the metals that run the device on which you are reading this post were extracted by an artisanal miner, who may have been working in hazardous conditions with primitive equipment and without a legal mining title. Whether sold directly to a mining...
Linda Papagallo (Ulula) and Caitlin Pierce (Namati) In recent years, conflicts over land rights have attracted much attention, as large-scale land deals in Africa and elsewhere have become increasingly controversial. In Myanmar, land has become an even more valuable...
