The private giving numbers cited in the Brookings report of the last post come from an essay by Homi Kharas, The New Reality of Aid.  Kharas sifts through the published data to estimate just how much money given as “development assistance” is actually reaching the poor. By his estimation, once debt relief (which is really a [...]

Earlier this year Brookings released Making Poverty History? How Activists, Philanthropists, and the Public are Changing Global Development, a report based on the Brookings Blum Roundtable 2007.  While it contains much of interest, one item immediately catches the eye: in 2005, private philanthropic giving for international causes was roughly equal to official development assistance (ODA) [...]