From Poverty To Power

Those who know me, might be unsurprised to learn that I had a very interesting chat in the pub last night with a friend who works in economic development. Apart from discussing the eyecatching headline of the recent Oxfam report published on the day that the World Economic Forum met in Davos, and discussed by Tom White below, he also suggest a new resource that was currently popular among the his world.

The resource is an excellent blog - which I've subsequently had a look at - written by Duncan Grant, at strategic adviser to Oxfam GB whose also written a book of the same name, which is currently in its 2nd edition. Now my friend didn't recommend the book, but he did endorse the blog:

http: oxfamblogs.org/fp2p

And after a cursory glance I'll second that endorsement; it has some interesting, engaging and just downright informative insight into the world of development and the NGO