# Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public and the Poor Make Poverty History?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/global-development-2-0-can-philanthropists-the-public-and-the-poor-make-poverty-history/
- Published: 2008-09-11T10:27:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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.

The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on
the global agenda, with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling
attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs such as the World Economic
Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative.

The cozy, all-of-a-kind club of rich country officials who for decades dominated
the development agenda has given way to a profusion of mega-philanthropists, “celanthropists,”
and super-charged advocacy networks vying to solve the world’s toughest problems.
Supporting the development glitterati is a sizeable rank and file made up of the
mass public, as evidenced by the abundance of “Make Poverty History” wristbands,
an Internet-enabled spike in charitable giving at all income levels, and record 
involvement in overseas volunteering.

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).

## About Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet

**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.