Give and Take: Questions About Malaria Data

Longtime critics of Bill and Melinda Gates raise questions about the malaria data the couple cite as part of their effort to promote U.S. foreign spending on global health, notes The Chronicle’s Give and Take review of the best nonprofit blogs.

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• Two recent reports on gender and ethnic diversity in hiring were intriguing but didn’t address the issue of age.

• Has breast-cancer-awareness month made it impossible for other business-charity partnerships to get attention during October?

• A defense of microfinance programs.

• The second-annual Give List

• The difficulty of improving farming production in poor countries.