Rory Stewart – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:16:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Rory Stewart – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 Direct cash model offers lesson in leadership & humility https://www.givedirectly.org/lesson-in-leadership/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:52:42 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=14914 When I was put in charge of the UK’s $20 billion global aid budget, it was easy to imagine I had “power.” I was a Secretary of State, appointed by the Queen. I had people working for me all over the world. Every day, I was asked whether I wanted to put $100 million into education in Ethiopia, or $40 million into healthcare in Nigeria? To contribute a billion dollars to a global fund on vaccines…

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]]> Why we’ve failed to end extreme poverty https://www.givedirectly.org/independent-poverty-oped-2023/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:27:55 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=12046 As leaders gather this week for the UN General Assembly, they face the most profound failure. The world promised to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030: the UN’s number one goal for a decade and the focus of billions in spending. But we will miss the target by a huge margin. This shouldn’t have happened, and we can do something about it. Poverty can mean many things…

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