Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public and the Poor Make Poverty History?
While philanthropic foundations and celebrity goodwill ambassadors have been part of the charitable landscape for many years, the unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty.
Global Development 2.0 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the world’s poorest.
Contributors include:
- Matthew Bishop (Economist)
- Joshua Busby (University of Texas–Austin)
- J. Gregory Dees (Duke University)
- Vinca LaFleur (Vinca LaFleur Communications)
- Homi Kharas (Brookings Institution),
- Ashok Khosla (Development Alternatives Group)
- Mark Kramer (FSG Social Impact Advisors)
- Jane Nelson (Harvard University)
- Joseph O’Keefe (Brookings Institution)
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Brookings Institution)
- Darrell M.West (Brown University)
- and Simon Zadek (AccountAbility).
Authors
Lael Brainard is vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA, where she holds the Bernard E. Schwartz Chair in International Economics. Brainard served as deputy national economic adviser in the Clinton administration.
Derek Chollet is a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program, USA. He is also a fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA.
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