Conservative Promises
David Cameron is widely expected to become Britain’s next prime minister. Plenty of people in the world of international development worry that a Conservative British government will be less committed...
View ArticleGood News
“The ‘oh, woe is me’ thing, we’ve just got to get over that. The world has changed. It’s happened.” So said Beth Frerking at a social entrepreneurship conference organised by students at Harvard...
View ArticleBooks of the Year, Part 2
2010 has been a good year for books touching on philanthrocapitalism. In no particular order, here is our second batch of favourites (not including our own “The Road From Ruin“). We will select five...
View ArticleBooks of the Year, Part 3
2010 has been a good year for books touching on philanthrocapitalism. In no particular order, here is our final batch of favourites (not including our own “The Road From Ruin“). We will highlight our...
View ArticleBooks of the Year: Our Complete List
2010 has been a good year for books touching on philanthrocapitalism. In no particular order, here are our 15 favourites (not including our own “The Road From Ruin“): “The Power of Social Innovation“,...
View ArticleThe Year of Fighting Over What Works
Last year we made a set of predictions for 2010. Some were satisfyingly prescient – the surge in mega-giving we predicted for 2010 became a reality through the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge (even if we...
View ArticleThe Art of the Posse-able
If you want a model for how the world can solve its most pressing problems in the 21st Century, it is the posse. As governance systems go, the Wild West approach of rounding up a few available hands...
View ArticleKing Bill
The leaders of the G20 major economies are going to have lots to talk about at their summit meeting in Cannes at the end of this week: saving the Euro, preventing a meltdown in the global economy and,...
View ArticleThe Fast Track Versus The Global Fund
Earlier this week former British prime minister Gordon Brown emerged from hibernation to lobby for a bold new plan to push education up the global agenda. The world has made progress in recent years...
View ArticleReview of the Year
This time last year we stuck out our necks and made ten predictions for philanthrocapitalism in 2012. So how did we do? 1. Greater scrutiny of the 1%. We were right that the US presidential election...
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