The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry

摘要

International aid has been attacked from many angles. Some see it as ineffective and wasteful, some as neo-colonialist, and some as merely a sop to the consciences of Western states which maintain their structural advantages through inequitable trade and foreign policies. Raj Kumar, who runs a leading aid industry news and networking website, Devex, is convinced of the importance of aid but is frustrated at the pace of change in an industry mired in a 20~(th) century mindset.