Not everything (worth addressing) is a crisis
There is a tremendous moral hazard inherent in using crisis language to describe problems that are more chronic in nature.
There is a tremendous moral hazard inherent in using crisis language to describe problems that are more chronic in nature.
Donors should know that any “answer” to poverty that takes the form of a paper or policy summit—even with the occasional overcoming-poverty anecdote thrown in for inspiration—is at best several degrees removed from making life better for the poor.