international development

2008 Social Capitalist Awards

Last week we posted a discussion surrounding the debate over how to “do good well” when it comes to international development.  We made some suggestions about how to advocate for a cause and maintain your integrity by identifying and supporting an NPO that is doing good work responsibly and efficiently.  While we know it’s not [...]

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2 Views on Development & Doing Good Well

If you’ve been involved in the discussion about poverty and international development in the past few years, you probably know the name Jeffrey Sachs.  Sachs is a development economist at Columbia University, advisor to the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, and author of the bestselling work, The End of Poverty.  You may or may not [...]

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The Long and Short Run of It

This morning I received an email from World Vision highlighting the most recent news on the current food shortage in East Africa. BBC East Africa Food Crisis report World Vision does an excellent job of keeping its donor community up-to-date on how instability (economic, political, environmental) is affecting people around the world and where there [...]

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