January 25, 2022
[VIDEO] “Rich people in rich countries enable African leaders to engage in corruption”
October 16, 2021
Can the Gates Foundation Decolonize itself?
Gates Foundation: The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power | The Nation Can philanthropy decolonize? Only if wealthy donors grapple with the difference between giving away money and actually sharing power. By Tim Schwab OCTOBER 2, 2021 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/
November 1, 2020
How we talk about global health
How we talk about global health: David Verga (PATH) November 2020: As James Baldwin points out in Notes of a Native Son, “the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.” Regardless of our intent, the words we use have material consequences. As NGOs, the way we describe our work shapes the way others…
June 1, 2020
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The Looting Machine, by Tom Burgis Moneyland, by Oliver Bullough Gangsters of Capitalism, by Jonathan M. Katz
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Useful Archives/Books: The Looting Machine, Tom Burgess Moneyland, Oliver Bullough Gangsters of Capitalism, Jonathan M. Katz
May 31, 2020
Madagascar government uncovers $830 million of previously unknown ‘aid.’
The Government of Madagascar used the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to discover millions of dollars of spending on development and humanitarian projects in the country, that were previously unknown to them. See this 2021 report from the IATI https://iatistandard.org/en/about/case-studies/madagascar-casestudy/ Madagascar has a Aid Monitoring Platform (AMP), but many international organizations working in Madagascar…
August 25, 2019
Gates Foundation: Improve global health without addressing structural causes
Nicholas Kulish (NYTimes podcast/discussion) discusses how Bill Gates has defined problems and solutions to global health, avoiding structural change and protecting Big Pharma patent protections, while burnishing his image as a global health savior: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/podcasts/the-daily/coroanvirus-vaccine-bill-gates-covax.html “Bill Gates is, in many ways, a representative figure…of an era where private companies have such a huge say in…
October 16, 2005
Action Aid calls out “Phantom Aid” in 2005
Scandal of ‘phantom’ aid money | Larry Elliott, economics editor | The Guardian 2005 27 May A 2005 Action Aid report stated that the bulk of aid money allocated was wasted, misdirected or recycled within rich countries. They estimated that 61% of aid flows were “phantom” rather than “real” – rising to almost 90% in…
