Why failure works
Q&A: Can we meet the Millennium Goals by 2015?
Forget past mistakes and focus on the present with aid
Q&A: Let's talk frankly about failure in foreign aid
Young engineer hopes to see more failure in Africa
The Leading Thinkers
Gilmore and Nenshi named young global leaders
Scott Gilmore, a co-founder of Peace Dividend Trust and featured personality on The Globe and Mail’s Leading Thinkers series, has been named a young global leader by the World Economic Forum.
Aid isn't the solution, it's the problem
Dambisa Moyo, Zambian economist and author of the bestselling book, Dead Aid, doesn't pull punches when talking about foreign aid and Africa. "It severs the link between individuals and their ability to hold their governments accountable."
Optimism meets realism in development
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of global development at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains how tackling a wheat disease with money raised through philanthropy is not only helping the developing world, but Canada as well.
The wisdom of making mistakes in aid
Charity Ngoma, an aid worker in Zambia, talks about how making mistakes helped her and her team improve their approach and ultimately, have a bigger impact
Forget the past and focus on the present in aid
Bono, singer and activist, speaks about aid getting smarter since the 1960s. "Don't be put off by the past. The present aid is working."
How to fix wasteful foreign aid
Scott Gilmore, founder of Peace Dividend Trust, discusses his motivations for creating an organziation aimed at making foreign aid more efficient. "As a diplomat, I was fortunate enough to see the aid industry from the inside and the outside," he says. "I was dismayed." Look below the player for two more videos.
Bottom line? Aid works, says Sachs
We talked to Jeffrey Sachs, director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, about the ongoing challenges of making foreign aid work. "Development aid for poor people works," he says in this exclusive interview. "That's the bottom line." See below for two other videos of Mr. Sachs.
A relationship based on respect
Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, brought the concept of microlending to individual donors, allowing them to connect and loan money to business people in the developing world.
On the Ground
To fix aid we have to think long-term, says young engineer
At the recent Engineers Without Borders gala in Toronto, we talked to several young aid interns fresh from stints in Africa. In this slideshow, Jolly Ann Maulit explains why short-term thinking doesn't work.
Young engineer says it's time to talk about failure in aid
At the recent Engineers Without Borders gala in Toronto, we talked to several young aid interns fresh from stints in Africa. In this slideshow, Ben Best describes his philosophy on failure in foreign aid.
Q&A: Let's talk frankly about failure in foreign aid
Pariticpate in our upcoming discussion with George Roter, CEO of Engineers Without Borders, on talking frankly about failure in foreign aid.
Q&A: Can we meet the Millennium Goals by 2015?
Participate in our upcoming discussion on the Millenium Development Goals with Karen Takacs, executive director, Canadian Crossroads International.
Q&A: How to give internationally
An earlier discussion on how to best give to organizations doing international relief work
Education creates engagement, Kielburger says
Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Free The Children, and a driving force for youth getting involved internationally, says education is key to engaging the next generation
About Leading Thinkers
About aid in the 21st century
It isn't that aid doesn't work. It's that many say it hasn't worked nearly well enough, considering the billions spent and enormous emotional investment from the developed world. As the Millennium Development Goals, agreed upon by the United Nations in 2000, come to their fruition in 2015, will we meet their ambitious targets, such as an end to poverty?
Most feel that isn't likely.
In this, the second of six Leading Thinkers discussions, we talk to some of the biggest minds about aid in the next century. What's working, what's not, and what's got to change.
Aid in the 21st century poll
Should we increase foreign aid, or spend our aid dollars more carefully?
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