How Giving Can Save The World

Tag: Abhijit Banerjee

Books of the Year

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date December 28, 2011

If you need proof that philanthrocapitalism matters more than ever, look no further than the large number of books touching on effective giving and social change that have been published this year. Excluding our own contribution, The Road From Ruin (published in paperback this year in both Britain and America), here in no particular order […]

Poor Economics, Ineffective Philanthropy

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date May 5, 2011
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The very existence of a Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is an acknowledgment both that there is also such a thing as ineffective philanthropy, and that it should be possible to tell the difference between good philanthropy and the other sort. Indeed, you might expect that this would be the main focus of the CEP’s […]

Tags Abhijit Banerjee, Center for Effective Philanthropy, Esther Duflo, Hewlett Foundation, MIT Poverty Action Lab, Paul Brest, Phil Buchanan