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Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The headquarters of probably the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organisations of any sort, currently stand between a derelict restaurant and a row of elderly car repair businesses. Gentrification has yet to fully colonise this section of the Seattle waterfront, and even the actual premises of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which, appropriately perhaps, used to be a cheque-processing plant,...
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- Agriculture
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“Less Beer; More Books” and A Few Other Ideas for the Weekend
On beer, schools, giving, being unreasonable, translations... Here are some interesting pieces that crossed my desk and caught my eye this week. Pick some up, put them in your bag and add them to your weekend leisure reading list.
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- Agriculture
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Ripe for Change: Developing a Sustainable Mango Industry in Haiti
TechnoServe and The Coca-Cola Company have launched a project to double the incomes of 25,000 Haitian mango farmers. A TechnoServe volunteer consultant shares her experiences and impressions after three weeks on the ground in Haiti.
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- Agriculture
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Maximum Impact: How Top Philanthropists Would Spend $10 Billion
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates , the chairman of Microsoft Corp., committed $10 billion over the next decade to help develop vaccines and distribute them to children in the developing world. By anyone’s estimation, this is a lot of money and a worthy cause. But could it be spent even more wisely? It is now ...
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- Agriculture
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Reserve Bank of India to MFIs: Shape Up or Face Music
HYDERABAD: India’s booming microfinance segment is under the scanner, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issuing a veiled warning that it could be taken off the priority sector lending list of banks if the industry fails to improve its governance standards. This was spelt out at a meeting in late January between senior RBI officials, representatives of Sa-Dhan-the association of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs)-and some senior MFI managers from Karnata...
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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BoP Heavyweights Bishop, Edwards and Tooley Coming to NYC
If you are based in or around New York - or have plans to travel there in the coming months - you may be interested in two upcoming events that feature base of the pyramid subjects and experts.
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Why We Help: A Meditation on “Giving”
There are dozens of motives for people to work in the business of development and I’ve been pondering the psychology of "giving" and what drives people to want to work in international aid, donate to charities, work for non-profits, and generally work in an environment where there is a heightened desire to help others. So what drives you?
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Is Aid Working?
It is hard to argue with the lofty ambition to end once and for all the scourge that is global poverty. How the world should go about this, however, is much more vexed. If poor countries do not have sufficient capital, aid advocates argue that there is a moral imperative for rich ones to help. Since 1970 hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral and multilateral aid has been sent to Africa from the developed world. G20 leaders agreed at last month’s summit London that an extra $50bn ...
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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