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U.S. Philanthropy’s Shrinking Ambition, Part V: The Paradoxes of Philanthropic Effectiveness
May 26, 2009 – 9:47 am | 2 Comments

By Steven Lawry
In Part IV of this series I argued that large, conventional foundations, staffed by highly-qualified and increasingly specialized professional staff, are over-specifying the solutions to poverty in-house and, in the process, are increasing …

Seeing Like a Citizen
May 7, 2009 – 4:23 pm | 2 Comments

Citizenship has often been viewed as a residual of something else: get markets right and citizens will participate, or get elections right and citizens will have a voice. This is a narrow view of citizenship.  …

FORGE & transparency: How radical do we want to be?
November 25, 2008 – 3:06 am | 7 Comments

Philanthropic bloggers have been abuzz with Kjerstin Erickson’s decision to post the details a few weeks back about a funding crisis that could put her NGO, FORGE, out of business.  After Sean Stannard-Stockton described this …

NGOs: The New Colonialists? Redux
November 16, 2008 – 11:12 pm | No Comment

During our seminar with Duncan Green and Lant Pritchett last Friday, we revisited the question of NGOs providing services that governments are expected to provide – thereby undermining the development of effective states.  This is …

From Poverty to Power
November 15, 2008 – 12:37 am | One Comment

Today the Hauser Center hosted Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam GB, to discuss his new book, From Poverty to Power.  Lant Pritchett, professor of the practice of international development, offered a response.
Some quick …

NGOs: The New Colonialists?
July 31, 2008 – 10:13 am | No Comment

One thing about taking in more money and becoming responsible for a larger share of international development assistance: you get noticed.
Foreign policy experts have begun to include NGOs in their analysis.  First comes a mention …