Comments on: Catalytic Philanthropy and the Delegation of Public Responsibility http://www.planetd.org/2009/10/16/catalytic-philanthropy-failure-government/ Critiquing the Politics, Policy & Practice of Development Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sriram http://www.planetd.org/2009/10/16/catalytic-philanthropy-failure-government/comment-page-1/#comment-126719 sriram Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:17:03 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/?p=948#comment-126719 hi dweep - the gates-buffet model is not something i admire and is certainly not close to my suggestion. directly quoting from tolstoy from "what then must we do" here: Quote And thus I became convinced that the reason it was impossible for the rich, to help the town poor, lay also in the impossibility of coming into close touch with them, and that this impossibility we ourselves create by our whole like and by the whole use we make of our wealth. I became convinced that between us – the rich – and the poor there stand a wall of cleanliness and education that we have erected and reared by our own wealth, and to be able the aid the poor we have first of all to destroy that wall, so that we may apply Sutaev’s method of distributing the poor among us. And from this side, too, I reached the same conclusion to which the course of my reflection on town poverty had bought me: that the cause of that poverty is our wealth. Unquote just a line of thinking worthy of debate. hi dweep – the gates-buffet model is not something i admire and is certainly not close to my suggestion.
directly quoting from tolstoy from “what then must we do” here:
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And thus I became convinced that the reason it was impossible for the rich, to help the town poor, lay also in the impossibility of coming into close touch with them, and that this impossibility we ourselves create by our whole like and by the whole use we make of our wealth. I became convinced that between us – the rich – and the poor there stand a wall of cleanliness and education that we have erected and reared by our own wealth, and to be able the aid the poor we have first of all to destroy that wall, so that we may apply Sutaev’s method of distributing the poor among us. And from this side, too, I reached the same conclusion to which the course of my reflection on town poverty had bought me: that the cause of that poverty is our wealth.
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just a line of thinking worthy of debate.

]]> By: Dweep Chanana http://www.planetd.org/2009/10/16/catalytic-philanthropy-failure-government/comment-page-1/#comment-126563 Dweep Chanana Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:07:08 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/?p=948#comment-126563 Hi Sriram, That is a controversial suggestion indeed. I do have my personal doubts that that approach, applied globally, would lead to anything more than a breakdown of wealth creation. But people like Gates seem to agree with you! Hi Sriram,
That is a controversial suggestion indeed. I do have my personal doubts that that approach, applied globally, would lead to anything more than a breakdown of wealth creation. But people like Gates seem to agree with you!

]]> By: sriram http://www.planetd.org/2009/10/16/catalytic-philanthropy-failure-government/comment-page-1/#comment-126436 sriram Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:51 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/?p=948#comment-126436 dweep - have a controversial answer to the question - how the rich can save the world? ans: by giving up their riches :-) this stems from what i understood from tolstoy's book/experiments on urban poverty "what then must we do?" sriram dweep – have a controversial answer to the question – how the rich can save the world?
ans: by giving up their riches :-)
this stems from what i understood from tolstoy’s book/experiments on urban poverty “what then must we do?”

sriram

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