Inequality
There is no such thing as a free gift …
“No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy” by Linsey McGoey (2015) provides critical perspectives on the role of foundations, and more generally on philanthropy. However, the book makes a series of questionable linkages and claims, without which it would have been a much stronger book. Attempting to drive home […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Gates Foundation #GMOs #Inequality #Philanthropy
How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty
Erica Kohl-Arenas’ new book, “The Self-help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty” (2016) offer strong criticism of philanthropic work, by asking “Can the surplus of capitalist exploitation be used to aid those on whose backs this surplus is generated? Can these surplus dollars contribute to addressing entrenched poverty while refusing to address systematic questions of […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Inequality #Poverty #Structural Poverty #Systematic Change
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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