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Category: Philanthropy
There are 172 entries in this category.
Jul 18, 2007
Celebrities, Influence, and Listening to Africans
The challenge for anyone looking to make a measurable difference is that the dynamics that help and harm in each country are so diverse. It is legitimately difficult to know who to listen to, because equally informed, stake-holding Africans have conflicting ideas about what will work in their respective countries or communities.
Jul 06, 2007
In Global Health, Money Isn’t the Problem
A recent Economist article argues that there is more than enough money earmarked for world health initiatives, but that the available funds are not being dispersed.
Jun 27, 2007
The Challenges, and Opportunity, of Rapid Testing
In HIV/AIDS circles a false positive is a preferable evil to a false negative (which denies a patient treatment and creates the possibility that he or she will unknowingly spread the virus), but they still aren’t good, especially given the high stigma associated with the disease.
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.
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 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.
Apr 17, 2007
Malaria-Free Zones to Malaria-Free World
A Ghanian economist is setting up malaria-free zones in various countries in Africa in an attempt to stop the disease one town at a time.
Mar 20, 2007
(Red) Gets a Beating
Critics are pillorying Bono’s current project to save Africa, Product (Red).