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1 Billion Idle Minds or 1 Billion Opportunities?
Lindsay Clinton
Feb 28, 2011

[This blog is a guest contribution on the "Policy Potluck" blog series.]   During the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Conference, there was a fascinating discussion on the pressing need to tackle youth unemployment on a global scale. Why? There are nearly 1.2 billion people on our planet between the ages of 15 and 25—the largest youth demographic in human history.

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Small Investments in APS Can Deliver Significant Impact
Usha Ganesh
Feb 21, 2011

[This blog is part of  the "Impact Investing is a Verb?" blog series.]  Having great systems in place is not enough to bring about change. There is a need to dig deeper to ensure pre-conditions to its success are put in place. I saw this demonstrated in two interesting reports I read last week. One report, that appeared on Down to Earth, spoke about how the Indian Government spent INR3.65 to reach INR1 in aid and subsidies to the poor.

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Waiting For The World To Change
Lindsay Clinton
Feb 15, 2011

[This blog is a guest contribution on the "Policy Potluck" blog series.]   A few months back I went to see Waiting for Superman, the new documentary by Davis Guggenheim about the tragic state of the U.S. school system. The film follows five kids in different urban centers across America as they seek a better education than is being offered by the public school system. The education system in America, the film exhorts, is broken.

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Developing the reading habit in children
Ember Melcher
Feb 03, 2011

[This blog is part of  the "Innovate to Educate" blog series.]  Grace Model School, where I work as an IDEX fellow, started an evening library for students and other children in October 2010.  Our library is operated by student workers and charges a nominal fee of INR10 (~USD0.22)per month to join.  For the first 2-3 months, the library was a very cheerful place, with robust membership, steady attendance and native English speaking volunteers eve

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