Steven Pearlstein has an article in the Washington Post titled,
"Aid Recipients Might Have the Best Ideas About Allocation"
which covers alternate methods to allocate aid funding to needy states. The article challenges the orthodoxy that a small group of specialists are the best to determine what to do with donor money. Instead, GlobalGiving is using technology and the "wisdom of the crowds" to produce outcomes that are more efficient. This methodology has political implications, especially for models which incorporate ratification and
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