Poverty and Inequality

Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play

Publication Date: November 03, 2009

This three-part case study (along with a video supplement) presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's NYC Acquisition Fund in August 2006. The case concludes with a...

Vision Mumbai

Publication Date: July 01, 2008

In 2006, officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with...

NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region (Epilogue)

Publication Date: March 14, 2008

In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance to the impoverished people of rural Tibet. Based on the lending model pioneered by...

NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Publication Date: March 14, 2008

In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance to the impoverished people of rural Tibet. Based on the lending model pioneered by...

Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 28, 2008

Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part of her efforts to save the deteriorating neighborhood, Mayor Evans joined a wide-ranging...

Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing

Publication Date: February 28, 2008

Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part of her efforts to save the deteriorating neighborhood, Mayor Evans joined a wide-ranging...

Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank (A): A Personal and Social Search for Inclusive Economic Development: The Start-Up

Publication Date: October 05, 2007

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh created the model for large-scale "microlending" in the developing world, in the process becoming an institution known and respected internationally for a creative and effective approach to poverty alleviation...

Making the Case for Supportive Housing: Homelessness Research and Policies in New York City (B)

Publication Date: August 16, 2007

In the late 1990s, Dennis Culhane, a professor and social science researcher, launched a groundbreaking study of homelessness in New York City. Culhane set out to measure the services used by a large group of severely mentally ill homeless, and...

Making the Case for Supportive Housing: Homelessness Research and Policies in New York City (A)

Publication Date: August 16, 2007

In the late 1990s, Dennis Culhane, a professor and social science researcher, launched a groundbreaking study of homelessness in New York City. Culhane set out to measure the services used by a large group of severely mentally ill homeless, and...

Linda Gibbs and the Department of Homeless Services: Overhauling New York City's Approach to Shelter

Publication Date: August 16, 2007

In January 2002, newly elected New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Linda Gibbs as commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). Gibbs had already earned a reputation as a results-oriented manager who could broker deals...

Liquor Tax Reform in Thailand: Competing Interests and Objectives

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Income tax cuts for individuals and businesses, ambitious government spending plans, financial assistance for citizens affected by the December 2004 tsunami, rising costs of the national healthcare system, and public pressure to curb alcohol...

Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 14, 2006

The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished, isolated settlements just north of the Mexican border in the Lower Rio Grande...