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Bill Gates has set ambitious goals for Africa. Benny Dembitzer asks whether another top-down aid programme can succeed without understanding how poverty is experienced on the ground.

Big international NGOs were created to challenge injustice. Have scale, bureaucracy and dependence on institutional funding pulled them away from the people they claim to serve?

Médecins Sans Frontières commands enormous public trust and significant resources. This article asks difficult questions about how effectively that strength is being used.

Lasting development begins with the realities facing farmers, workers and communities, not with grand strategies designed far away. The base must shape the solution.

Small, locally rooted projects can see needs clearly, adapt quickly and remain accountable. Their success challenges the assumption that bigger aid programmes achieve more.

Donors are encouraged to give, but rarely shown the full journey of their money. This article follows the systems, costs and decisions between a donation and its intended recipient.

Benny Dembitzer witnessed the Ethiopian famine response firsthand. Four decades later, he reflects on what Band Aid changed, what it missed and why hunger persists.

Emergency relief can save lives, but it cannot replace long-term development. Communities need the power, resources and stability to build beyond repeated crisis response.

Trillions have been spent in the name of development, yet poverty and hunger persist. The question is not whether the world has given enough, but how the system uses what it gives.

Vast sums have been committed to ending poverty, but outcomes remain painfully limited. Following the money reveals who controls it, where it is absorbed and who is overlooked.

Decades after famine shocked the world, hunger remains widespread. Benny asks what the international response has learned and why the same failures keep returning.