Dan David Prize Names Award Winners

It took years of research in Asia and Africa for Alfred Sommer, recipient of the Dan David Prize, to build consensus that Vitamin A can help prevent child mortality rates. Professor Alfred Sommer, who was awarded the Dan David Prize Sunday, will ...

2013 Dan David Prizes Awarded; Three $1 Million Awards Presented "Loading the player…" Dan David (1929-2011) Dan David Prize 2013 Laureates 2013 Dan ... Dan David... Dan David... TEL AVIV, Israel, 10 June, ...

We have to look for those experiences that allow one to de-accelerate. To find those things that cannot be sped up, and cherish them more. Leon Wieseltier in his office. Photograph: Books Kraft. On Sunday 9 June Leon Wieseltier will be presented ...

Studying the effects of female leaders A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes In her opening address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in ...

Here's the main argument for microfinance: Making small loans to poor women in developing countries will help them start businesses and escape poverty. A new, rigorous analysis of microfinance in India suggests its real effects are much murkier.

in Development, Labour markets and employment, Microfinance | Tags: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Development, industrial policy, Latin America, microcredit myth, Microfinance, Milford Bateman, RCTs This guest post is provided by Milford Batemanwho is a ...

Today Africa is often described as seeking its green revolution, mirroring the term coined to describe Asia's major small-holder productivity advances in staple food production, beginning in the mid-1960s. Although Africa's total factor productivity ...

Overview of The National Development Plan Address to the African Renaissance Conference by Trevor Manuel, MP Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission Programme Director, Mr Moses Tembe Deputy President Motlanthe Premier Zweli Mkhize ...

Nolberta Melara sews an apron at her house in the Salvadorean city of San Marcos on Oct. 13, 2006. To support her family financially, Melara makes aprones and then sells them in markets across the country. The 51-year-old woman saw her life ...