In France, Germany, and the US, the number of 0-14 children has remained stable for the last 60 years! In Nigeria, this age-cohort has doubled every 20 years!

The first lie: seriousness is all or nothing. I often run into people who are like: “Well, I don’t feel like I’m being truly serious and I’m not living up to my values, but I also can’t burn every bridge and change everything about my life, so I guess I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing, forever.”

But this is like believing that the only way to get

Ideally, philanthropies ought to have disrupted the “traditional” international development players. The entrepreneurial backgrounds of most philanthropists should have meant greater focus on private sector growth and a much higher appetite for risk taking on project design. Yet the international development “field” completely tamed these impulses,

Unfortunately, being located in the field of international development also means that philanthropies suffer from the same pathologies as “traditional” development outfits — such as ontological solipsism, cynical paternalism, small ambitions, cyclical faddism, obsessive bean counting as an end in itself, and being used by their host governments to