Charity in Hard Times
If governments or individuals use the global recession as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world’s poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem of poverty for the world as a whole. In fact, given the recession's disproportionate impact on the poor, it has never been more important to increase official and private aid donations.
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PRINCETON – As I tour the U.S. promoting my new book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty , I am often asked if this isn’t the wrong time to call on affluent people to increase their effort to end poverty in other countries. I reply emphatically that it is not. There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world’s poorest people, they would only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.