How Giving Can Save The World

Tag: Paul Collier

Do it different in Haiti

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date January 27, 2010

We have had the impressive spontaneous outpouring of generosity in response to the crisis in Haiti and the fine words about building back the small Caribbean nation better than it was before. The question now is ‘how’? That is going to be one of the hot topics for the leading brains of government, business and […]

Tags Charter cities, Coca-Cola, Davos, Haiti, Marshall Plan, Nike, Omidyar Networks, Paul Collier, Paul Farmer, Sudan, United Nations, Wal-Mart, World Economic Forum

Watching the economists

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date October 3, 2008

We talked to Bill Easterly today – author of The White Man’s Burden and leading sceptic about aid to poor countries. Easterly’s main argument is that top down aid processes don’t work, whereas bottom up processes driven by people on the ground have a much better chance of succeeding. Hence his scepticism about grand strategies like […]

Tags Bill Easterly, Jeff Sachs, Paul Collier