The Least Among Us
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Niall Ferguson wrote a review of Paul Collier’s “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It” in Sunday’s New York Times.
An excerpt from the piece:
“As Collier rightly says, it is time to dispense with the false dichotomies that bedevil the current debate on Africa: “ ‘Globalization will fix it’ versus ‘They need more protection,’ ‘They need more money’ versus ‘Aid feeds corruption,’ ‘They need democracy’ versus ‘They’re locked in ethnic hatreds,’ ‘Go back to empire’ versus ‘Respect their sovereignty,’ ‘Support their armed struggles’ versus ‘Prop up our allies.’ ” If you’ve ever found yourself on one side or the other of those arguments — and who hasn’t? — then you simply must read this book.”
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July 4, 2007 at 10:30 pm
the discussion about the BOP (bottom of the Pyramid)has progressed in the last few years. At least we are talking about how to help these people instead of how we can make money off of them. That is the reality. Another reality is that it is great to talk about we should help this set of people over and over again about helping people. The thing is that until we start talking about WHAT the PLAN is nothing will get done except raising a bunch of money. I assume your organization is all ready putting the money it is raising into worthwhile projects. GREAT! Lets hear more about that then how much we have to do. Focus on the solutions, those are the things that give me hope and a positive feeling that we can get this DONE, NOW!
Paul Hawken has a database of millions of organizations that are out there HELPING people. If you knew about it are you using it? If you are using it why are you hiding the fact you are using it from the general info on the web site? Part of helping the BOP is making the connections that the BOP cannot make because of lack of resources of one or the other. I did not know about YOU until my 14 y.o. daughter sent me your web site. Maybe I can send you one, although I would guess you might have run into Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons a while ago, if you haven’t you might try looking at http://www.bioneers.org. One of the things I have heard is ‘Its all connected.’ and ‘Its all intelligent.’ How do we make better connections in your organization? Are there places for people to exchange info at?