Welcome to the Golden Age of Charity
Book review of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDun’s A Path Appears. Appearing in Christianity Today, February 25, 2015.
Thanks to innovations in accountability, poverty-fighting efforts are flourishing like never before.
The global aid industry is experiencing an unparalleled era of evolution and transformation. Globalization of media has increasingly brought the plight of the world’s poor, disadvantaged, and disabled before our eyes. A growing awareness of the chasm between the privileged and the poor has spawned a tremendous burst of creativity in efforts to end poverty.
At the same time there has been an increasing demand for heightened scrutiny over the impact of poverty programs. Do any of them really work? (Click to read article in CT Online.)