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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, economic growth, foreign aid, international aid, microfinance, microlending, poverty, poverty alleviation, technology, women 1 Comment
Profit: A dirty word?
Is it okay to profit off the poor? I, along with a number of other development junkies, debated this point over Twitter on Friday. It came at the behest of the inimitable Matthew Bishop, co-author of Philanthrocapitalism. He did so following a blog post he and co-author Michael Green wrote following Muhammad Yunus’s reaction over [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged aid, Bangladesh, entrepreneurship, microfinance, microlending, Opportunity International, Philanthrocapitalism, philanthropy, poor, private sector, SKS, Yunus 5 Comments
Bill Gates: No Health, No Education, No Entrepreneurship
I attended the 92nd Street Y‘s talk with the Economist’s Matthew Bishop talking to billanthropist Bill Gates. It was an interesting exchange inspired by the concepts in Matthew & Michael Green’s book Philanthrocapitalism. In the first half, Bill Gates talked a lot about the urgent need to eradicate malaria, polio and AIDS. He spent the [...]
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