How can we innovate poverty?
Innovative Solutions to Poverty and Hunger
- The Hippo Roller. With millions of people walking several miles a day to access clean water, the Hippo Roller helps impoverished people conserve energy and provide water for their families.
- Solar-Powered Irrigation.
- One Laptop Per Child.
- HotPot Solar Ovens.
- Plumpy’nut.
Will Sims Innovations for Poverty Action?
Will Sims serves as Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Associate with IPA’s Right-Fit Evidence Unit. He previously worked as a Strategy Consultant with Accenture, supporting clients across the healthcare, energy, and consumer goods industries.
What is IPA Ghana?
IPA Ghana is one of our largest offices and home to the Teacher Community Assistant Initiative, agricultural insurance research, and other key studies in the areas of education, finance, and health. IPA Ghana has a long history of collaborating with the Ministry of Education to support improving learning outcomes.
Who is Annie Duflo?
Annie Duflo is the executive director at Innovations for Poverty Action, a nonprofit that researches and promotes solutions to global poverty problems.
What inventions help poverty?
Inventions that Help Fight Poverty
- Vitamin-rich sweet potatoes.
- Lucky Iron Fish.
- Fashionable iodine.
- Water Carriers.
- Expandable shoes.
- Energy-saving slow cooker.
- Adjustable glasses.
- Salt-powered lanterns.
Are Annie Duflo and Esther Duflo related?
Esther Duflo is a French American Economist. Her father, Michel Duflo, is a mathematician. Her mother, Violaine Duflo, is a paediatrician. Her younger sister, Annie Duflo, is an Economist.
Does Abhijit Banerjee have children?
Kabir Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee/Children
The couple had a son Kabir Banerjee who died in an accident in 2016. Kabir was the only son of the couple and was born in 1991. In 2015, Abhijit Banerjee married Esther Duflo (his co-researcher at MIT). The couple has two children.
