The data show that liberals need a nudge to give.

The use of social criteria may be fine for affluent investorswho assume the extra risk to achieve their perceived political goals and the Gates Foundation has set a higher standard.

A new class of "entrepreneurial philanthropists" is redefining what counts as philanthropy.

Pension funds are being dragged into treacherous waters where political and moral views threaten clear financial mandates.

In her short but strident debut, Dambisa Moyo takes up the argument that aid is often ineffective and can inhibit growth as if it were new.

To make essential drugs available to needy patients in poor countries, those countries need to take down their trade barriers.

America"s most relied-upon metric for charting a course in our national effort to reduce and eliminate poverty appears to offer unreliable, and indeed increasingly misleading, soundings on where we are today, where we have come, and where we seem to be headed.

The world’s poor and those in need of medicines would be better off if the WHO took different approaches to pharmaceutical development.