THE QUESTION TODAY:
If aid is working, why is starvation still rising?
When does aid become development?
Who controls aid, and who benefits from it?
If money spent is the wrong measure, what should replace it?
Why are food-producing communities still going hungry?
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Those experiencing poverty must help shape the solutions.
Development conversations are too often led by institutions, consultants and donors far removed from their consequences. Fight Global Poverty exists to widen that conversation.
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How should development be measured?
$1.5tn
Reported aid over five decades. Spending is an input, not proof of development.
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Countries that have ended poverty through aid alone.
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Measure that matters: are people and countries becoming less poor?
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New Book by Founding Editor Benny Dembitzer
The Global Famine Game
After five decades working across more than 35 countries, development economist Benny Dembitzer examines why the systems created to fight hunger continue to fail, and what must change if people are to feed themselves without permanent outside control.
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