Philanthropy Action

Category: Poverty Alleviation

There are 48 entries in this category.

Apr 24, 2008

Explosive Growth in Conditional Cash Transfers

Conditional cash transfer programs (CCT) are rapidly gaining popularity around the world. While there are studies which show that CCT programs have a positive impact, there’s still a lot we don’t know about how well they work, why they work, and how to structure programs for maximum benefit to both recipients and society. To help answer these questions, we recently spoke with Dr. Leigh Linden, an assistant professor of economics at Columbia University.

Apr 16, 2008

Global Food Inflation: What Can Be Done?

Rapidly rising food prices around the world are capturing front page headlines daily. The problems in the agricultural sector of been decades in the making and will take several years to fix.The biggest danger is that in the rush to short-term fixes, we’ll simply create more distortions that don’t deal with the real issues and make future food crises even worse.

Apr 11, 2008

Cash Is More Addictive than Nicotine

Economists from Innovations for Poverty Action and the World Bank have found that money might be the most powerful tool to help smokers quit.

Apr 07, 2008

Grim News From Afghanistan

Poppy cultivation and wasted foreign aid are like twin sisters perpetuating the cycle of poverty within Afghanistan.

Mar 21, 2008

Emerging Opportunities in the US, Part II

More opportunities for high-impact philanthropy in the US.

Mar 19, 2008

More News of an Africa on the Economic Upswing

The commodities boom and bust in the 1980’s left most developing nations worse off than they started. Particularly hard hit was sub-Saharan Africa.

Mar 14, 2008

Legalization and Criminalization of Illicit Trade

Experts in a variety of fields passionately debate how to combat illicit trade in everything from drugs to endangered species to, worst of all, people. There are rational, credible arguments for both criminalizing and aggressively prosecuting those engaged in illicit trade and for legalizing and regulating the trade.

Mar 12, 2008

Remittances and Foreign Investment Trends Tell a Mixed Story for Latin America

Foreign direct investment is a critical element of poverty reduction in emerging market economies because it correlates directly with the creation of businesses, and therefore formal jobs, in those countries. By that calculation Brazil appears to be on a promising path.

Mar 05, 2008

Ethiopian Exchange Looks Promising

A group of donors, including the Ethiopian government, the World Bank and a few countries, such as the US, are funding the creation of a grain exchange in Addis Ababa

Feb 28, 2008

Emerging Opportunities for Philanthropy in the US

The current economic situation is generating many other possible opportunities for innovative and high-impact philanthropy. Here are a few ideas that are worth exploring.

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