This new edited collection about social innovations for fighting poverty is very welcome. Its understanding of social innovation is inspired by the work of Frank Moulaert (2013), who has written a foreword. According to Moulaert and the contributors, social innovations aim to satisfy basic needs, to transform social relations, and to increase capabilities and/or access to resources for a target group. This is more a description than a definition but helpfully encompasses content, processes and goals. Social innovation is quite a crowded field but this book has a strong, distinctive voice, foregrounding governance challenges and empowerment dynamics in the face of persistent poverty.