Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After having jumped upwards in the 2000s, global donations for health increased very slowly throughout the 2010s. The cultivation of philanthropy also changed somewhat, with the age of donation commitment – in which hundreds of the richest people in the world promised to give more than half their great fortunes to charity – first yielding to the advanced movement, then to a new Extreme richness defined less by altruism than by great ideas. After the gates divorce in 2021, Melinda finally left the foundation to establish his own philanthropy; Warren Buffett, a long -standing supporter, recently announced his plans To leave most of his remaining fortune in the hands of a charitable confidence that his own children will administer and give no additional money to the Gates Foundation beyond his death. After a few years of slow post -avisal decrease, it was the year of foreign aid – as director general of the Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman, recently written In The Economist – “fell from a cliff”.
In the field, progress has also been bumpy, in particular following the pandemic emergency, when many routine vaccination programs were interrupted and the poorest countries in the world were launched, en masse, in distress of extreme debt. The share of the world's population living in extreme poverty fell by almost three -quarters between 1990 and 2014, but it has hardly shrunk since.
To hear the doors and his team say it, it's time to do everything – given the gap gaps produced by post -peemic reverse and the Trump assault, and given the promise of biomedical tools and other innovations now saving in the development pipeline, and given AI, a Gates subject returns again. They even speak with enthusiasm of a world in which the Gates Foundation has become useless. This world seems extremely attractive. But – given the obstacles – can it be built?
For two days at the end of April, I spoke with Gates of the state and the inheritance of his philanthropic business, his achievements and his disappointments so far and what awaits us. The following is a published and condensed version of these conversations, in which it was sunny, detailed and confident, sometimes to the abrupt certainty, that the next decades would give even more radical improvements in the global development than what it called, retrospectively, “our miraculous period”.
I. “Millions of additional children of children”
Let's talk about the very present, the Trump administration turns its back completely with foreign aid and leaving not only several million people, but also most world institutions in the world in the mouth. How bad is it?
