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  FEATURED ARTICLES  
  Kiva and the Birth of Person-to-Person Microfinance  
  Matt Flannery  
  Winning Citizen Trust: The Siting of a Nuclear Waste Facility in Eurajoki, Finland  
  Juhani Vira  
  Everyone a Changemaker: Social Entrepreneurship’s Ultimate Goal  
  William Drayton  
  Global Climate and Health: Predicting Infectious Disease Outbreaks  
  Rita R. Colwell  
Special Edition for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum

LEAD ESSAYS
Social Innovators with a Business Case
Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan
Beyond Lending
Fazle Abed and Imran Matin

CASES BY INNOVATORS
Income is Development Martin Fisher
commentaries by Paul Polak; Julia Novy-Hildesley; Eric Simanis & Stuart Hart

Making Sight Affordable V. Kasturi Rangan & R.D. Thulasiraj
commentary by Geoffrey Tabin

Seeking a Cure for Inequity in Access to Medicines Victoria Hale

Taking Animal Trafficking Out of the Shadows Dener Giovanini
commentaries by Jerry Mechling; Carter Roberts

Information Technology to Meet Social Needs Jim Fruchterman

Science as Social Enterprise Richard Jefferson
commentaries by Sara Boettiger & Brian D.Wright; Yochai Benkler

 
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