Jan 21 2016
Gates Foundation Has An Agenda With a Name: “Philanthrocapitalism”
GUEST: Alex Scrivener, policy officer at Global Justice Now.
Following up on yesterday’s coverage of an Oxfam report that the world’s 62 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire world’s population, we turn today to the work of one well-known gazillionaire – Bill Gates. Through the philanthropy Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the wealthy Gateses have rebranded themselves as one of the good rich guys. But are they really? A new report by the UK-based group Global Justice Now finds that the huge amounts of money that the Gates Foundation gives away is not always put to good use. The report is called Gated Development: Is the Gates Foundation Always a Force for Good?
Find out more here globaljustice.org.uk. Download the report here: http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/gated_development_final_version.pdf.
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