Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After jumping up in the 2000s, Global Giving for Health grew very slowly during the 2010s. The culture of philanthropy has also changed a little, with the age of the commitment of donations, in which hundreds of the richest people in the world promised to donate more than half of their great fortunes to charity, producing first to the most important movement called effective altruism defined less by altruism than by grandiosity. After the divorce of the doors in 2021, Melinda Ange left the foundation to establish her own philanthropy; Warren Buffett, a defender for a long time, recently announced his plans to leave most of his removable fortune in the hands of a charitable confidence that his own children will administer, and not to give additional money to the Gates HISON HISION Foundation. After a few years of slow decline after Covid, this has been the year in which foreign aid, as executive director of the Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman, recently miserable in the economist: “He fell from a cliff.”
In the field, progress has also been irregular, in part, following the Pandemic emergency, when many routine vaccination programs were arrested and the poorest countries in the world were thrown and mass, extreme anguish. The participation of the world’s population living in extreme poverty fell by almost three quarters between 1990 and 2014, but has barely been reduced since then.
To listen to Gates and his team. They simply speak with enthusiasm about a world in which the Gates Foundation has become unnecessary. That world sounds tremendously attractive. But, given the obstacles, can it be built?
Approximately two days at the end of April, I spoke with Gates about the state and the legacy of his philanthropic effort, his achievements and disappointments so far and what is coming. What follows is an edited and condensed version of these conversations, in which it was sunny, detailed and safe, sometimes to the point of abrupt certainty, which the next decades would produce even more radical improvements in global development than what he called, in retrospect, “our miraculous period.”
I. ‘Millions of additional deaths of children’
Let’s talk about the same present, with the Trump administration that turns its back on foreign aid and leaves not only many millions of people, but also most world institutions in the world in the shake. How bad is it?
