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Africa can teach development experts

Writing in the Financial Times: This is Africa, Iqbal Quadir cites African examples of dispersion of power leading to accountability and economic progress.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Aid , Governance, Mobile Technologies

Foreign Aid and Bad Government

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Iqbal Quadir writes about how development is most effective by aiding entrepreneurs.

Categories: Foreign Aid , Governance, Innovation Investment

It hurts to fund governments

Iqbal Quadir writes about the lack of progress being made in attaining the UN Millenium Development Goals.

Categories: Economics , Foreign Aid , Governance, Innovation Investment

The Semantics of Poverty

Managing Director Michael Maltese writes about the need to change the terms of the discussion on global poverty and progress.

Categories: Foreign Aid

Smaller, smarter. For remote regions, electricity does have to mean extending the grid. There may be a simpler way

This article delves into the innovative ways in which light and power are being supplied to previously un-serviced areas.  These approaches represent a shift away from traditional centralized, resource-demanding, “extend the grid” solutions and toward environmentally-friendly, resource-recycling, “off-grid” alternatives.

Categories: Bangladesh, Energy, Foreign Aid

Foreign Aid Letter

In this note to the Editor, Iqbal Quadir refutes the assumption that government aid provides an effective means of alleviating problems in the developing world. 

 

Categories: Agriculture, Economics , Europe, Foreign Aid

125 Influential People and Ideas

The Wharton of Business honors Iqbal Quadir as one of its one-hundred-twenty-five most influential alumni.

Categories: Bangladesh, Economics , Foreign Aid

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