“Anecdotes and photographs,” he said. “This is the typical response you can expect, when you ask the president of a local, budding non-profit organization, ‘How do you know your efforts are being effective?’ or ‘How do you know you’re doing good?’” He was Arbinger Institute founder, former chair of the [...]
Last year, India’s Food Minister K.V. Thomas introduced the National Food Security Bill with a singular objective: to eradicate hunger and malnutrition from the country in the shortest possible time. This bill, which hasn’t yet been passed, aims at bringing highly subsidized food grains to people who qualify as being [...]
Since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over ten years ago, the world has had varying levels of success in making each goal a reality. One target that seems to be solidly on track is the achievement of universal primary education; by 2015, children everywhere—both boys and girls—should [...]
You and I have seen them on posters and Internet banners, on billboards and bus panels—pictures of people in poverty, starved children and women with threadbare clothes, and downtrodden expressions. These images are designed to pull at our heartstrings, but they are the bad kind of sensational. Bill Easterly, author [...]
Within four days of being uploaded, Invisible Children’s recent film, “Kony 2012,” received 56,647,137 hits on YouTube and became the number one trending topic on Twitter. As of March 9th at 11:27am, the video trailed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” by only 657,903,640 views and had received support from Bieber himself (among [...]
I’ll have a Venti Frappucino and some indentured servitude Guatemala stands both as a beacon of hope and a warning of failure for developing countries. Although tormented by a tumultuous past, including a history of puppet regimes, rigged elections and the collapse of the coffee market, ordinary Guatemalans can finally [...]
For USAID, the world’s largest foreign aid donor, how best to allocate its $32 billion budget is a pertinent, everyday question—and one that becomes more challenging as the magnitude of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) increases at a mind-boggling rate. For example, it is estimated that India alone has over 3.3 million [...]
As an intern in Brussels last summer, I often attended conferences after work with other interns and professionals. My colleagues and I would try to guess the nationalities of the various attendees, the easiest of which to identify were the Poles. One reason was sheer numbers; it seemed that at [...]
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams We know you have ideas for articles in your head. We also know you usually need a deadline to force you to put it on paper. So here are all the deadlines [...]
The recent budget compromise roped off $23 billion of next year’s budget for Pell Grants, while maintaining the $5,500 maximum yearly payout. But is it fiscally responsible for the government to continue awarding Pell Grants? What should be the government’s role in funding higher education?
BYUPR: You cover the GOP primaries for BuzzFeed, but you’re also plugged in to the Mormon community. What’s been your favorite part of that so far? Coppins: Of all the unlikely alliances formed during this “Mormon Moment,” my favorite has been the making of CNN’s Anderson Cooper into an LDS folk hero. [...]
Mormons have always had a tenuous relationship with the US government—at times in opposition to Washington, at others its strongest supporters. As of late, the Huntsman and Romney campaigns have stirred a new debate over Mormons and their beliefs, and whether Americans are comfortable with them holding sway in the [...]
I was going to write a terrific article outlining all the practical reasons why increased labor mobility is a vastly more effective way of improving the welfare of the world’s poor than any other conceivable development project. But in the last issue, David Cramer wrote that article better than I [...]
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