American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Common Core is a big win for education.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.