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Jun 26, 2007
Differing Views in Charity Work Splits the Funds
Almost every field of interest contains conflict, with well-informed people taking different stances, but when a field is too widely splintered it can dilute the effectiveness of all of the participants.
Jun 25, 2007
Tolerance a Boon to Slavery
While poverty is certainly one of the main factors driving the persistence of slavery it is by no means the only one. In fact, while India and China have succeeded spectacularly at reducing poverty, slavery persists and is quite possibly growing. At root is a tolerance for slavery, whether from corrupt government officials, cultural apologists or passive business partners.
Jun 08, 2007
The Role of Cell Phones in Poverty Alleviation
The fishing industry in Northern Kerala in the south of India, as reported in The Economist, has become an example of how simple tools of information exchange can transform a local industry.
Jun 06, 2007
The Slum Opportunity
Despite their horrors, in slums there are jobs, access to markets, more developed roads and water systems and other civic infrastructure. And opportunity for the poor and donors alike.
May 30, 2007
Cheap Instead of Free: Lessons in Effective Aid
In an attempt to curtail the phenomenon in aid circles in which materials distributed for free are thrown away or never used, some groups are experimenting with making the poor pay for certain interventions, such as bed nets. The goal is to determine whether payment will increase use.
May 30, 2007
Colombia Sees an Upsurge in Investing, and a Chance for Change
New investment in Colombia business may be signalling a move toward stability for the country as a whole. And stability is great, because it opens the way for reinvestment in infrastructure which will benefit the poor.
May 24, 2007
Laptops for School Children Don’t Improve Performance
Secondary schools in the United States that have experimented with one-child-one-laptop provision are shutting down those programs after five or more years, an article in the New York Times reports.
May 22, 2007
Decrease Yields, Increase Food Security
A recent Associated Press article cited a Danish study which concluded that food security in sub-Saharan Africa would not be negatively impacted if 50 percent of the agricultural acreage in Western food-exporting countries were converted to organic by 2020.
May 08, 2007
Overselling Results
Effective investment in development continues to be handicapped by overselling of results and false expectations. The greatest danger is that such overselling makes cynics of a whole generation of donors.
May 02, 2007
How Do You Empower Women?
Some recent efforts focused on empowering women have in fact had the opposite effect.