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Acumen Fund's Novogratz on Charlie Rose. Fighting Poverty with Profits.
Charlie Rose was rocking today with two superb interviews that enhance and challenge our perceptions of how to think about the world’s most pressing problems of poverty and health in the develop… more →
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What is Poverty?
mgmoore wrote 1 month ago: Poverty is such a complicated problem of intricately interwoven and interrelated issues the answer t … more →
Why Do our Overseas Programs Work?
mgmoore wrote 2 months ago: Last time we talked about some of the reasons why overseas programs don’t work. Lest we stay too n … more →
Why Don't Our Overseas Programs Work?
mgmoore wrote 2 months ago: I saw a lecture by Paul Farmer at Virginia Tech the other day. For those of you who don’t kn … more →
'Ethical Gifting': Patronizing or Practical?
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thenewhumanist wrote 3 months ago: I am addicted to ‘charity’ giving. Or at least my financial ability to be able to contri … more →
Acumen Fund's Novogratz on Charlie Rose. Fighting Poverty with Profits.
JoeDuck wrote 3 months ago: Charlie Rose was rocking today with two superb interviews that enhance and challenge our perceptions … more →
Twestival and Charity:Water
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JoeDuck wrote 4 months ago: Thursday the Twitter community is coming together in cities all over the world to meet and have fun, … more →
The world's most important "to do" list: The Copenhagen Consensus
JoeDuck wrote 5 months ago: The Copenhagen Consensus is arguably the world’s most rational approach to Government spending … more →
Fareed Zakaria GPS - Ashraf Ghani on Afghanistan
JoeDuck wrote 5 months ago: Once again Fareed Zakaria’s great new show on CNN, Global GPS, brings us face to face with peo … more →
Human Rights Day
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JoeDuck wrote 6 months ago: There is a UN Inspired Human Rights project trying to get folks to blog, discuss, and reflect on Hum … more →
Guest Essay: Bjorn Lomborg on Climate Change Budgeting.
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JoeDuck wrote 7 months ago: Reprinted with permission, copyright Bjorn Lomborg A New Dawn The benefits of climate-change polici … more →
Markets refuse to join the Paulson & Bernanke Fan Club
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JoeDuck wrote 9 months ago: Ouch. The bailout plan details start to be discussed as Bernanke lays out some of his plans and his … more →
Bill Gates on Zakaria GPS
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JoeDuck wrote 9 months ago: Fareed Zakaria continues his amazing series of interviews on his CNN GPS show with Bill Gates. Like … more →
Fareed Zakaria's GPS on CNN
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: There’s a new show on CNN called GPS for “Global Public Square” and despite the du … more →
Earthquakes and Cyclones are a small part of a much more tragic story
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: Some would say it’s cruel or inappropriate to suggest that the big tragedies are the daily dea … more →
9 killings over the weekend. In Iraq? No, Chicago.
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: As somebody who believes that real math and reason should govern our perceptions about the world, it … more →
World Malaria Day is April 25th
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: Malaria is one of the most persistent yet solvable problems on earth, and progress has been made as … more →
Risk saves lives
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: Just another in my ongoing rants about something I feel strongly about. We need to accept a lot mor … more →
You call the $13 billion in pork barrel projects wasteful spending? It's a whimper to the Military's Bang Mega-Budget!
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: Taxpayers, many in Congress, and all three presidential hopefuls are all ranting against the stupidi … more →
Countrywide v. Congress and the China Connection
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JoeDuck wrote 1 year ago: Today CSPAN had the congressional hearings with Mozilo, who has a 40 year tenure with Countrywide as … more →
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