Archive for Building Markets, February, 2011
Back to all blogsWhat’s wrong with aid?
28 February 2011 | Building Markets
Why is aid broken? This animated video that we at Peace Dividend Trust created offers one explanation. Better yet, it offers a solution to make aid and peacekeeping more ef...
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Help! They’re cutting foreign aid…
17 February 2011 | Building Markets
It's budget season again in Washington. And again it reminds me of a Looney Tunes skit: Congress as Bugs, outwitting and outmaneuvering the aid world that is Daffy....
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Volunteers vs Interns – Getting it Right
14 February 2011 | Building Markets
I still dislike volunteers, but I'm willing to concede a couple of points (grudgingly and without grace)....
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Can Microfinance Reduce Poverty?
1 February 2011 | Building Markets
Microfinance seems to be the latest buzz word in the international development world, thanks to several high-profile micro-lending organizations and the recent string of preda...
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Challenging Down with the People
16 February 2011 | Building Markets
Last week PDT bossman Scott Gilmore went on a rant about volunteering. This week Habitat for Humanity Ireland's Executive Director Karen Kennedy sent us this response....
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Down with people
10 February 2011 | Building Markets
I'm no fan of volunteers. And I have several angry reasons why....
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Humanitarian Aid, the chicken or the egg?
18 February 2011 | Building Markets
Found this article about Wipro CEO Azim H. Premji in today's NYT interesting. I had incidentally heard Premji speak earlier this week about his efforts to raise India's educa...
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World Vision: What are you seeing?
15 February 2011 | Building Markets
PDT is throwing its hat into the ring on the World Vision NFL T-Shirt debate. @good_intents (via @saundra_s) has an aggregated listing, thanks Saundra!...
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Cash for Oil: Are Cash Transfers a cure for the Resource Curse
6 February 2011 | Building Markets
In Oil for Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers, Todd Moss of the Center for Global Development suggests cash transfers as a tool to curb many of the dele...
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