Having been a great fan of Half the Sky , I was very excited when I found out that Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn were coming out with another book, this time focused on how more effective charities can make a real difference around the world. My high expectations were certainly not disappointed, and the authors penned a wide-ranging book that talks about topics from how to better target your charitable giving, how charities can be more effective, and how a multitude of different approaches can effectively help solve many of the seemingly intractable problems around the world. Sometimes we seem to be confronted with problems that are so massive that we believe solutions to be impossible. How can we tackle disease, rampant poverty and illiteracy, sex trafficking, and other problems that affect millions around the world? The very scale of the problems seems to make solutions elusive. But this would be a mistaken perspective. These problems are not only solvable, but they a...
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