Amongst all the regular cavalcade of criticism and negative news across media channels, it was encouraging to come across a recently released report, discussing the current trends in global philanthropy and progress in international development.

The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances* is produced annually by The Centre for Global Prosperity (CGP), detailing the sources and magnitude of private giving to the developing world. Not to be categorised as a mere statistical paper, it also summarises current observations on how private capital and new sources of social funding are achieving sustainable reductions in poverty despite weaker economic activity.

Highlights from the report include:

Private capital investment flows from all donors increased from $228 billion in 2009 to $329 billion. Global philanthropy, remittances,...

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We’ve all felt that painful sensation of confusion and loss when a door closes in our life. Sometimes, it will have been slowly squeaking shut for quite a while already, and other times there will be no warning of the abrupt slamming of that door. Either way, there is no denying that these times force us to reassess our lives and more often than not, another door opens to greener pastures…

Alexander Graham Bell, the famous inventor once observed:

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

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