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Fuente: DEVEX IMPACT Following a performance by women wearing traditional Peruvian dress, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú and Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra posed with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in matching alpaca scarves and caps...

Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico, is a mix of wonder and sadness. It is home to rain forests, Mayan ruins, waterfalls, rugged highlands — and some of the country’s highest death rates among women in childbirth.

Despite progress over the past decade in reducing the global burden of newborn deaths, gaps in the knowledge base persist, and means of translating empirical findings into effective policies and programs that deliver life-saving interventions remain poorly understood. Articles in this issue…

WALSENBURG, Colo. — Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control. If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials asked, would those women choose them?..

Fuente: UNDESA DSPD This E-dialogue on "Rethinking and strengthening social development in the contemporary world" is part of the preparatory process for the 54th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD) to be held in February 2016, and organized by the United Nations Department of…

Between June and October 2014, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) consulted 26 international maternal health researchers to gather perspectives on the most critical and neglected areas for knowledge generation to improve maternal health in low- and middle-income countries. This paper, the result…

Fuente: LAC Forum Estimating Mesoamerican and Dominican Republic Supply Chain Costs document prepared by the LAC Forum with the support of the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative. Download it now.

Fuente: CGD blog All the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results got us wondering: how are these programs being implemented and are they effective? In our new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything?” we looked at a subset of performance programs that pay…

Fuente: ssireview.org That’s what we often say when we step into a transformative scale effort—an attempt to completely solve a social problem—that is making remarkable progress. While reflective planning and thoughtful strategy are important, the rare movements that really thrive also demonstrate…