The Optimist
List of The Optimist articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Price Is Right
How the world can buy its way out of poverty for just $100 billion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Thousand Points of Light
When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Paperwork Tigers
The developing world can do fine without more regulation, thank you very much. In fact, it can do better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shot in the Dark
The biggest hurdle to eradicating disease isn't access to vaccines -- it's getting people to take them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Green Shoots in the Killing Fields
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Through Rose-Colored Corrective Lenses
Poor vision is a major hurdle to getting ahead in the developing world. Fortunately, remedies are cheaper and easier -- and more profitable -- than they've ever been before.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Paying for Peace
Can we just buy security in Afghanistan?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inpatients Abroad
How do you solve America's health-care woes? Outsource them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More People, Please
Don't worry about the booming global population -- celebrate it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Some Horsemen
Apocalypse buffs and international development types have one thing in common: They're both wrong.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Show Me Everything But the Money
Why we should spend less time worrying about what people in developing countries think about government corruption, and more time looking at everything else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Out of Eden
Pre-modern lifestyles were fraught with violence, disease, and uncertainty. We should be happy that indigenous societies are increasingly leaving them behind.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Talks, No Action
Forget about the stalled Doha round negotiations -- developing countries can do plenty to fix their trade restrictions without the World Trade Organization's help.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Money may not buy happiness, but can happiness buy money?
