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ALLISON SCHRAGER | THE MICROPHILANTHROPIST | December 18th 2007

Can you really help Africa by buying a t-shirt or the right sort of coffee? Perhaps so, says Allison Schrager, but you could probably do better by putting in a bit more intellectual effort and giving the money directly ...

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Giving money away is easy, assuming you have it to give. Giving it away to good effect is another matter entirely, says Matthew Bishop of The Economist, in a report on smarter philanthropy for the current issue of Intelligent Life magazine ...

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