Earlier this week former British prime minister Gordon Brown emerged from hibernation to lobby for a bold new plan to push education up the global agenda. The world has made progress in recent years but, Mr Brown reports, 68 million kids still get no education. Worse, he warns, cuts to aid budgets mean that we […]
A chapter dedicated to the Gates Foundation’s work on tackling diseases in the developing world, in a new report called Global Health Watch 2, brings together most of the main criticisms of the foundation. It provides a useful checklist of what some in the global health community have against the world’s leading philanthrocapitalist. So here […]
Today is World Aids Day. The increasingly successful, though still far from won, fight against HIV/Aids is a battle that has seen philanthrocapitalism at its most effective. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has delivered considerable resources and used its public voice to drive a wide range of initiatives, including working with Bono’s campaigning and […]