By Ellen Knickmeyer
Vastly more people needing help, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in the slums of the world’s poorest cities. More climate crises, both slow-moving and abrupt. More military involvement in humanitarian work. More …
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 …
(I originally posted this on Tuesday 11/11/08 and it mysteriously disappeared, so I’m reposting. Unless there’s been foul play from a new philanthropist acolyte, I can only chalk it up to a site glitch. Apologies …
A continuing theme on which I’ve commented several times (links here, here, and here) concerns the increasing share of private resources in development aid. Sam Worthington, the president and CEO of InterAction, the leading coalition …
So, questions still remain about the ability of the U.S. disaster relief system to handle a large-scale catastrophe. What can we do?
(1) Develop a national disaster relief fund
With such a fund, private contributions for relief …
I’ve been silent on the blog for a few weeks due to paternity leave.
In my absence, events continued to raise questions about the capability of the U.S. disaster response system. There were criticisms of the …
As Hurricane Gustav approached this weekend, the president and both would-be presidents engaged in a bit of fund raising, mostly for the American Red Cross (ARC). Barack Obama directly asked all those in his fund …
While working through a backlog of reading I came across this post by Lucy Bernholz* on Philanthropy 2173, in which she characterizes “foreign aid” as “international philanthropy” while referencing Reinventing Foreign Aid, a new volume …
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 …
While I have some qualms about the methodology behind the data, it seems clear that private resources for international development are growing rapidly, and are beginning to rival official development aid (ODA).
This could portend a …
Michael Edwards, who recently stepped down as director of the Governance and Civil Society Program at the Ford Foundation, explores similar issues in “Have NGOs Made a Difference?”*
He finds that development NGOs have been influential …
