 The Brookings Institution has just released Global Development 2.0 Can Philanthropists, the Public, and the Poor Make Poverty History?, featuring chapters by CSRI Director Jane Nelson (Chapter 9, "Effecting Change through Accountable Channels") and CSRI Senior Fellows Mark Kramer (Chapter 12, "Philanthropy, Aid, and Investment: Alignment for Impact") and Simon Zadek (Chapter 10, "Collaborative Governance: The New Multilateralism
for the Twenty-First Century").
The ideas in the book stem from conversation at the 2007 Brookings Blum Roundtable on "Development's Changing Face: New Players, Old Challenges, Fresh Opportunities."
Description from the Publisher, Brookings Institution Press
The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the global agenda—with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs such as the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. The cozy, all-of-a-kind club of rich country officials who for decades dominated the development agenda has given way to a profusion of mega-philanthropists, "celanthropists," and super-charged advocacy networks vying to solve the world’s toughest problems. Supporting the development glitterati is a sizable rank and file made up of the mass public—as evidenced by the abundance of "Make Poverty History" wristbands, an Internet-enabled spike in charitable giving at all income levels, and record involvement in overseas volunteering.
While philanthropic foundations and celebrity goodwill ambassadors have been part of the charitable landscape for many years, the unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty. Global Development 2.0 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the world’s poorest.
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