Community is the center of living. All life is local . Thursday, February 18, 2010. chaotic finances for lower government entities. I would be interested to know what contingency plans are in place. My guess is that rather little has been done yet to address this area of concern. I hope I am wrong. Friday, April 25, 2008.

Corruption is a drag on productivity . but powerful individuals and groups get huge benefit from corruption. Society as a whole pays a very high price for corruption and stopping it is difficult. Sunday, April 13, 2008. There has been grand corruption in Iraq, it appears, since the very early days of the American occupation. More than five years into the occupation, and the total funds that have been mis-used seems to be more than anything ever experienced in history.

Helping to put CSR into the corporate mainstream. Saturday, February 13, 2010. Corporations should take CSR seriously. Over the last three years there have been enormous shifts in the global economic landscape. These shifts have been underway for a long time, but they have become more obvious, and they have accelerated in an exponential manner. Thursday, March 27, 2008. CSR vitally important for society . but not for traditional corporate stakeholders. A good business certainly should deliver benefit to .

Education is the foundation for the future. Friday, February 29, 2008. How important is education? How to make it the best it can be? Most people seem to understand that education is important . but how to make it the best it can be is a much more difficult challenge. It was also widely recognised that the lack of education was a constraint on development in much of the world some fifty years ago . The educational techniques that are .

but the economics are terrible. Making changes that are win-win-win is a challenge, but possible. Friday, April 25, 2008. An opinion about generic drugs. WHO Conference Attendees Wrongheaded In Their Support for Pharmaceutical Patent Busting. For Developing Countries without Healthcare Infrastructure, Free Drugs Are Largely Useless. At best, compulsory licenses a.

Viable strategy for success in reducing the socio-economic burden of malaria in Africa. Thursday, May 1, 2008. MERG and the lack of accountancy expertise. A few months ago I wrote the following. It was addressed to Dr.

Monday, March 31, 2008. What are the key metrics for microfinance. There has been a substantial growth in the use of microfinance as a modality for poverty alleviation. There has been a significant emergence of microfinance intermediaries . and the emergence of organizations helping to assess the credibility of these institutions. Thursday, March 27, 2008.

A key part of any management information system. Should be far more useful than it is. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The value of investments may be based on reality or on a rigged unreality. For most of the past 40 years a rigged unreality has made America look as if it was prospering, when in reality, all that was going on was that wealth once owned by one set of people was being moved to another set of people. But America has huge potential once the financial rigging is eliminat.

But big questions about how resources have been used. Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Getting an accounting 6 years later. The AIDS pandemic has a scale that is difficult to comprehend . and while there has been a substantial fund mobilization to address the crisis, there is a big question about the effectiveness of the interventions that have been funded. But this may be more difficult than it ought to be. The award from the U.

Big question about performance and cost effectiveness of development assistance. What might be better ways to use the resources? Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Hopefully this is going to change.