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It’s Not How Much You Give, It's How You Give It

What's the best way to give aid in the developing world? To break it down very simply, there are three ways donors agencies can give aid — differences that basically come down to trade-offs between user-friendliness and riskiness. Let's start...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 7:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

No Winners For This Year's African Governance Prize

Successful Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim has $5 million that he'd really like to give away. There's just one problem, though: He can't find any recipients for his money. Yesterday, for the second year running, Ibrahim's foundation decided...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 2:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The U.S. Finally Recognizes Human Trafficking Within its Borders

Is the world making progress in the fight against human trafficking? Every year, the U.S. State Department tries to answer that question. And this year's report, released yesterday, found that though there are some 12.3 million people who've been...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 1:01 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Insect Eating is For Everyone, the UN Says

When locusts descended on Egypt in the Bible, maybe the powers that be weren't sending a plague — maybe they were just sending the beleaguered Pharaoh a really good meal. Or so some UN representatives would suggest. The United Nations has been touting...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Engineering Success? New Evidence on the Millennium Villages Project

If you're looking for clarity three years in on whether the Millennium Villages Project — the vision of aid utopia from industry superstar Jeffrey Sachs — are best practice or bunk, you're best off avoiding the MVP's latest report . For those...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 6:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Cash, Hookers — and Whales?

In future schoolbooks, when historians document the decline of the global whale population, they may have some fairly non-P.G. reasons to cite — such as government officials' appetite for call girls, and Japan's willingness to supply them. That's...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:09 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How Transparent is U.S. Foreign Aid?

There are plenty of adjectives that can be used to describe U.S. foreign aid overseas: messy, sporadic and fragmented, to name just a few. And unfortunately, as a new Oxfam report makes overpoweringly clear, 'transparent' isn't high on that...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 8:40 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

New Hope for Mobile Banking in Haiti

Imagine not having access to a bank account. Your town is in shambles, and the nearest financial institution or money transferring station is miles away. Such is the scenario many Haitians have continued to experience in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 6:46 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Kenya's New Budget Can't Do

Is Kenya's new budget a blueprint for hope, or just a smokescreen? This week, the country's finance minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, presented the new 2010/2011 budget plan to parliament. If adopted, it will be the largest budget in Kenyan history —...

Published Sat, Jun 12 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Guatemala's Farmer-to-Farmer Movement Rise Again?

If you walk into the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture's office, you will see an impressive wooden desk. On the left-hand corner, it says "Donated by Bayer Science Agrochemicals." Turn around, and there's a plush couch bearing the plaque...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 1:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Lessons From Zenani Mandela's Lethal Car Crash

As the World Cup opened today, the death of Nelson Mandela's great grand-daughter — the 13-year-old Zenani — dimmed the day's celebrations. The news of Zenani's death is, as FIFA president Sepp Blatter puts it in a letter to Mandela, “unspeakably...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 8:50 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

For Better or Worse: Exporting U.S. Ideas of Insanity

"To travel internationally is to become increasingly unnerved by the way American culture pervades the world," writes Ethan Watters in the most recent edition of Adbusters . I couldn't agree more. I've eaten at more TGIFs, listened to...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 7:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

15 Years Late, Justice for Bosnian War Crimes

Name this country: Civil war decimated its people and infrastructure 15 years ago. Land mines still litter the countryside. Unemployment is up to 45%. The UN has blamed everything from corruption to brain drain to ethnic divisions for its economic woes...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 3:20 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Jill Biden Reminds U.S. Voters What Poverty Really Looks Like

Just a day after I wrote about what putting a face on poverty can do for us, the White House — specifically the Second Lady, Dr. Jill Biden — reminded us what humanizing the lives of the poor really means. During her trip to Kenya this week, Dr. Biden...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 11:26 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Redrawing the Map "Fix" Africa?

When I talk to people who’ve never been to Africa, there’s sometimes a tendency to treat the continent as a dysfunctional object. I’ll get asked questions about ethnic conflict and corruption, and I’ll get the 30-second warning that Africa is ceasing...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 6:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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