While malnutrition is a global issue, it had become a particularly severe public health challenge across Southeast Asia by 2015 where there was an estimated $6B annual funding gap for viable solutions. The “dual burden” of malnutrition...

Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Large and small, politically and culturally diverse; these six countries were among the top 10 fastest-growing economies in the world over the period from 2000 to 2010. The economic...

Infrastructure is the backbone of a nation’s economic prosperity and crucial for growth. The American Society for Civil Engineers graded America’s infrastructure a “D+” in 2013 and estimates at the time suggested the US would need to spend...

Dramatic price increases in Israel’s housing market prior to 2013 had outpaced the rise in average household income, leaving working families with limited options. To help generate possible solutions, the Milken Institute convened...

By 2013, Israel’s IPO market had collapsed and 95 percent of start-ups were being sold to foreign entities. These conditions put at risk the future of local capital investment and overall economic growth in Israel. To focus on reinventing...

This report presents conclusions from a two-day Financial Innovations Lab® on catalytic financing for nutrition facilitated by the Milken Institute in May 2013. Participants included a broad mix of government representatives from countries...

The future can’t come fast enough for a world seeking to expand its options on energy. The promise of wind, solar, and natural gas and advances in cleaner-burning fossil fuels signal better days ahead: for spreading global prosperity...

This Lab brought together a diverse group of more than 40 medical research and financial experts from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, medical research foundations, venture capital, and private equity firms, academic and...

A Financial Innovations Lab hosted by the Milken Institute with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was held in London in October 2010 to examine two of the primary threats to sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan...

There are currently 130 million homes in the United States—and their combined residential energy usage accounts for 20 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Studies have consistently found that nationwide energy efficiency...