Edition 3
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Exploring foreign aid
This piece explores some of the common criticisms and misconceptions regarding foreign aid while producing a vision for its continued improvement.
Angus Kennedy | GMCC Director
Evaluating B-Corp certification
Impact evaluation is becoming increasingly important to consumers and other market participants as more is expected of companies. B-Corp certification aims to achieve this and our piece evaluates the extent to which this has been successful.
Anita Jiang | Sponsorship and Partnership Director
Ben Griffiths | Vice President of Operations
Sustainable fashion: what you can do to help
Climate change is perhaps the most consequential concern of our times, and the fashion industry is a major polluter that exacerbates this issue. Nina Lo outlines why this is the case and presents you with a series of actionable steps that you can take to support sustainable fashion.
Nina Lo | Vice President of Student Engagement
Reading
Amartya Sen is a philosopher and the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, whose ‘capabilities’ approach led the way towards development metrics such as HDI. Development as freedom is a fascinating read that contends that development should be seen as a set of interwoven freedoms, the expansion of which is both the end goal and means of achieving development.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist known for her work in founding the Journal of human health and capabilities and for her work at the UN. A lot of her work extends and expands upon the work of Amartya Sen, with particular focus on gender, globalisation, and development economics.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr’s chapter: poverty and inequality: challenges in the era of globalisation
From ‘The adventure of peace: Dag Hammarskjöld and the future of the UN’
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa - Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo launches an offensive on the state of developed countries as a result of aid in this 2009 publication, pointing at the escalating poverty levels and declining growth rates of certain developing African nations. Moyo instead describes a radical overhaul that revolves around the lapsing of aid assistance, hence Dead aid has often being a pillar of the anti-aid debate.
Interesting rebuttals can be found below:
The Road to Ruin: Madeleine Bunting’s review explaining why she is “alarmed by a book which argues against giving aid to Africa”
Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good: international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Edited by Carole Bonanni, François Lépineux, and Julia Roloff
A diverse exploration of the relationship between social responsibility, entrepreneurship and the common good which is organized into four sections: business and the common good; educating responsible entrepreneurs; corporate social responsibility challenges, and the common good; and CSR and entrepreneurship in emerging economies.