Development Marketplace

The World Bank’s Development Marketplace just launched its 2009 competition, which brings me back to my favorite topic: the role of creativity in development. The DM is a grant program that rewards projects that have a development impact, no matter how unconventional. From training rats to detect tuberculosis, to planting chili peppers as both a cash crop and way to keep foraging elephants away, DM projects are good
examples of the far-flung effects a single idea can have.