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Featured Book of the Month
Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2009
The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances is the sole comprehensive guide to global philanthropy and remittances abroad. The Index documents contributions in 2007 (latest available data) from foundations, corporations, charities, universities and colleges, religious congregations, and individuals to the developing world. Global philanthropy, remittances, and private capital investment continued to grow in 2007, accounting for 83% of the developed world’s economic dealings with developing countries, while government aid continued to decline as a percent of total financial flows to the developing world and is now down to 17% of total flows. In the U.S. alone, private philanthropy and remittances are over five times its official aid abroad.
The 2009 Index, the fourth annual edition, breaks new ground by gathering improved private giving numbers for 11 donor countries besides the United States, resulting in significantly higher private giving numbers than previously. For the first time, the Index presents regional and sectoral data for private giving. New private giving models—venture philanthropy, online giving, cause related marketing, and text messaging fundraising—are at work, not just in America, but throughout Europe and the developing world, changing the landscape of foreign aid forever.
All this makes the 2009 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances an essential tool for foundation and charity leaders, corporate executives, government donors, policy makers, aid practitioners, researchers, students, and anyone interested in how global philanthropy is reinventing assistance abroad.
Featured Book of the Month
Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership
By Christopher Sands and Greg Anderson, Publication Date: 2007.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America is one of the major foreign policy initiatives of the Bush administration’s second term. This paper looks at the origins (in NAFTA and two separate Smart Border agreements with Canada and Mexico) and the prospects for the SPP, which involves hundreds of political appointees and senior civil servants in complex negotiations to foster cooperation in economic regulation and security procedures among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Sands and Anderson find that the fears some critics see—that this process is the first step toward a European-style “North American Union”—are unfounded, but that the SPP process is fatally flawed by the exclusion of Congress and a lack of transparency. Leaders failed to address these problems at their recent summit in Montebello, Quebec, leaving it to next year’s summit in the United States, or to the next U.S. administration.
Christopher Sands is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Government at the American University School of Public Affairs and a Senior Fellow in the American University Center for North American Studies.
Greg Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
Featured Book of the Month
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
This book is availabe for purchase from Amazon.com
China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past--and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar Charles Horner. In Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed view of its modern historical experience has also changed China's understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. Spirited reevaluations of history, strategy, commerce, and literature are cooperating--and competing--to define the future.
The capstone of modern China was the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and its rejection of Confucianism, capitalism, and modernity. Yet today's rising China retains few vestiges of what Mao wrought. What then, Horner asks, is post-Mao, postmodern China? Where did it come from? How did it get here? Where is it going?
Contemporary views of the great periods in Chinese history are having a significant influence on the development of rising China's national strategy, says Horner. He looks at the revival of interest in, and changing interpretations of, three dynasties--the Yuan (1280-1368), the Ming (1368-1644), and the Qing (1644-1912)--that, together with the People's Republic of China, provide examples of great power success.
The future of every major country is now connected to China's, and this book explains how China, now seeing itself as the complex and thriving result of the old and the new, is poised to change the world.