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Pakistan postcard part one: Sight
A week ago, I visited what is supposedly one of the most dangerous places in the world: Pakistan. While I do believe the country has serious security concerns, the only threat I came up against was traffic. And that, compared to New York or Istanbul, wasn’t all that bad. Here is the first of my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged aid, Ataturk, culture, development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Jinnah, Muslim entrepreneur, Pakistan, Turgut Ozal 6 Comments
Clinton Global Initiative 2010: Things that made me go “hmmm…”
Poverty: A man or a woman? This year’s CGI kicked-off with “girl power.” Specifically, the need to educate them, protect them, respect them, prepare them and empower them. Among the ideas tossed around at this week’s do-gooder conclave that made me go “hmmm”: Technology: Cherie Blair who heads up her own foundation for women wants [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged aid, Bill Gates, CGI, developing world, foreign aid, international aid, Matthew Bishop, microfinance, microlending, poverty, poverty alleviation, technology, women 1 Comment
It’s the markets, stupid
The take-away from day two of CGI is that development has moved on from the question of whether it’s okay to profit from the poor. Today’s CGI nugget: embrace the market. That’s where the opportunity, as Bono has declared, to “Make Poverty History” lies. Or, to put it in Clintonian terms: It’s the markets, stupid. Read [...]
How to make Haiti a partner
“We will be here today, tomorrow, and for the time ahead,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during her four-hour visit last week to Haiti. We should be in Haiti in the time ahead, but not as patrons. America needs to be Haiti’s partner. But how do we get there? Tyler Cowen has a great [...]
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The Haiti Earthquake: Aid & voodoo, but no answers
The Haiti earthquake “is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story,” writes David Brooks in “The Underlying Tragedy,” in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s why I agree with him, and still think he’s so wrong. 1. Aid: “We don’t know how,” Brooks says “to use aid to reduce poverty.” I agree. Despite [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged China, culture, David Brooks, development, entrepreneurship, foreign aid, Haiti, haiti earthquake, international aid, Paul Kagame, Rwanda 4 Comments
Pakistan postcard part two: Sound