Global Ideas News Brief: Market measurement + Easterly"s book

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Measuring the Indirect Impacts of Market InnovatorsStanford Social Innovation ReviewConventional wisdom insists, “If you can’t measure impact, it doesn’t exist.” The pressure has never been higher on nonprofits, donors, aid organizations, and impact investors to demonstrate that we’re achieving what we’ve promised. Anecdotes, imagery, and faith no longer cut it.GovernmentHighly Educated Countries Have Better GovernmentsThe AtlanticWhy? Citizens complain more, forcing officials to be more accountable.Pyongyang’s Hunger GamesNYT Op-EdThe UN’s report on North Korea, released last month, contains so many tragic findings that it is difficult to grasp the scale of the crimes described. But the world owes it to the North Korean victims to focus on a figure buried in paragraph 664 of the commission’s report: $645,800,000. That is what the North Korean leader, …


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