The Gates Foundation's Rise to Power by Adam Moe Fejerskov

Author:Adam Moe Fejerskov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

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24 Ibid.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid.

28 Ibid.

29 Ibid.

30 Smith, B. 2015. ‘Philanthropy’s difficult dance with inequality’, Alliance Magazine 29 June.

31 Oxfam. 2015. Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality. Oxford: Oxfam International.

32 Paulson, T. 2015. ‘Gates Foundation rallies the troops to attack UN development goals’, Humanosphere 6 May.

33 Ibid.

34 Gates, B. 2015. Setting Targets to Save Lives. Gatesnotes.com, 2 July.

35 Davenport, C. and Wingfield, N. 2015. ‘Bill Gates takes on climate change with nudges and a powerful rolodex’, The New York Times 8 December.

36 Interview with Senior Programme Officers, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

37 Gates Foundation. 2016a. ‘What We Do’. Seattle, WA: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Available at: www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do, accessed on 13 July 2017.

38 Perkin was a former WHO employee who now ran a non-profit in Seattle – PATH – and quickly became Gates’ go-to-guy on all things global health. At a dinner on the top floor of a Seattle downtown hotel, Perkin had Gates trying a new syringe that PATH had developed for single use (to avoid re-uses and thus the potential spread of diseases), injecting saline solution into a bread roll. Not long after, Gates made a $100 million grant to PATH that would see it attempt to make common childhood vaccines more readily available.

39 Medicins sans frontieres (MSF). 2015. MSF Calls on GSK and Pfizer to Slash Price. Geneva: Medicins sans frontieres 20 January.

40 Curtis, M. 2016. ‘Gated development’, Global Justice Now June.

41 McCoy, D., Chand, S. and Sridhar, D. 2009. ‘Global health funding: how much, where it comes from and where it goes’, Health Policy 24(6): 407–417.

42 Storeng, K. 2014. ‘The GAVI Alliance and the “Gates approach” to health systems strengthening’, Global Public Health 9(8): 865–879.

43 Gates Foundation, 2016a.

44 The strong crowding-in effect from the foundation’s emphasis on global health will be greatly felt in the state of Washington where it resides. More than 12,000 people are now employed there under the broad umbrella of global health, across research, logistics and manufacturing, an industry amounting to $6 billion annually.

45 Bank, D. 2001. Breaking Windows. New York, NY: Free Press.

46 In sheer numbers, global development is actually the largest division in the foundation with $2,211,000 spent in 2016, compared with $1,197,000 in the global health division. But this balance is mainly so because delivery-related departments from global health have been moved into global development (as described earlier in this chapter), such as polio and vaccine delivery, combined representing 42 per cent of the entire global development budget.

47 Gates Foundation, 2016a.

48 Revkin, A. C. 2016. ‘Bill Gates, the ‘Impatient Optimist,’ lays out his clean-energy innovation agenda’, The New York Times 23 February.

49 Interview with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Director.

50 Interview with former Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation agricultural team staff.

51 See Anderson, I. 2011. ‘The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: business versus bureaucracy in international development’, discussion paper 3, Development Policy Centre, Australian National University.

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