26 Sep 2008 No Comments
It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over the past few days. Below are links to the buzz: Yesterday’s UN Summit on the 2015 MDGs, a mid-way progress [...]
19 Sep 2008 No Comments
A friend just sent me a link to an article from the BBC on the threat of wasted aid dollars in the developing world. Normally I see articles (and books) on this subject related to how aid dollars have already been wasted. This article, however, warns of the inefficiency of waiting until a crisis occurs [...]
29 Aug 2008 5 Comments
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 [...]
13 Aug 2008 3 Comments
Several posts ago, we blogged about the idea of using for-profit business models for social benefits, one example of this being Ben & Jerry’s partnership with the ONE Campaign. While we salute this effort and contribution to improve the quality of life, we posed the following question: Is there a more effective way to use business [...]
01 Aug 2008 2 Comments
Last night I opened my freezer and saw before me a new flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, “One Cheesecake Brownie.” There are few things more satisfying than holding a pint of B&J in one hand and a spoon in the other. And I was particularly excited about the savory possibilities of “Cheesecake ice cream [...]
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