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Blog Entries by Dennis Whittle from 01/2009

What Happens When One Man Takes on the System

| Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
Read More: White Man's Burden, Poverty, Development, Bill Easterly, International Aid, Globalgiving, Entertainment News

Check out the trailer for the coming documentary for The White Man's Burden, a book by Bill Easterly. The movie is coming out in 2010, and I urge you to read the book in 2009.

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How Much of Your Brainpower Are You Using?

| Posted 01.05.2009 | World
Read More: White Man's Burden, Poverty, Bill Easterly, Globalgiving, World Bank, Video, World News

Below is a clip where I talk about how much brainpower is wasted in top-down hierarchical systems like the World Bank.

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The 2/3 : 1/3 Rule

| Posted 01.06.2009 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, Globalgiving, Poverty, Global Poverty, Dennis Whittle, Charity, Aid, Giving, World News

As Bill Easterly has pointed out, we have spent more than $2 trillion in aid over the past fifty years with not enough to show for it.

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Bill Easterly 2.0

| Posted 01.29.2009 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, Globalgiving, Charity, Bill Easterly, International Aid, World News

Bill Easterly has just started a blog called "Aid Watch." And although Bill has bad judgement with respect to sports teams, you should subscribe to hi...

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