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    The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
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    The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
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    The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry

    Written by Raj Kumar

    Narrated by Vikas Adam

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    About this audiobook

    Tech entrepreneurs bring their thinking to “giving”...bringing a data-driven, results-oriented approach to revolutionize the space.

    Today, entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley start-ups, and celebrity activists are the driving force in a radical shift in the way we think about lifting people out of poverty. In this new era of data-driven, results-oriented global aid, it’s no longer enough to be a well-intentioned do-gooder or for the wealthy to donate an infinitesimal part of their assets to people without a home or basic nutrition. What matter now in the world of aid are measurable improvements and demonstrable long-term change.

    Drawing on two decades of research and his own experiences as an expert in global development, Raj Kumar, founder and president of Devex, explores the successes and failures of nontraditional models of philanthropy. According to Kumar, a new billionaire boom is fundamentally changing the landscape of how we give, from well-established charitable organizations like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to Starbucks and other businesses that see themselves as social enterprises, to entrepreneurial start-ups like Hello Tractor, a farm-equipment-sharing app for farmers in Nigeria, and Give Directly, an app that allows individuals to send money straight to the mobile phone of someone in need. The result is a more sustainable philosophy of aid that elevates the voices of people in need as neighbors, partners, and customers.

    Refreshing and accessibly written, The Business of Changing the World sets forth a bold vision for how businesses, policymakers, civil society organizations, and individuals can turn well-intentioned charity into effective advocacy to transform our world for good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 30, 2019
    ISBN9780807081143
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    The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
    Author

    Raj Kumar

    Dr. Raj Kumar, FRSC, is currently working as Dean of School of Health Sciences, and a Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry (2007) from NIPER, Mohali, India and completed his postdoctoral fellowship (2007-2008) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Maryland where he co-invented a fused heterocycle RK-33 (Raj Kumar-33) molecule for the treatment of Lung Cancer. Dr. Kumar has published more than 90 peer-reviewed research papers (h index = 33; Scopus) in leading Medicinal/Organic/Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journals with a cumulative impact factor > 300. Dr. Kumar has been featured in the list of top 2% international scientists “Updated Science-wide Database of Stanford Citation Indicators” released by Stanford University, USA and published by Elsevier BV on 19th October 2021. His research interests focus on the design and synthesis of novel fused heterocycles of biological importance.

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      In today's world, when solving the world's most pressing issues, good intentions are not enough if they ain't followed by good results.