While philanthropic foundations and celebrity goodwill ambassadors have been part of the charitable landscape for many years the unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty global development 20 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the worlds poorest. Supporting the development glitterati is a sizable rank and file made up of the mass public as evidenced by the abundance of make poverty history wristbands an internet enabled spike in charitable giving at all income levels and record involvement in overseas volunteeringwhile philanthropic foundations and celebrity goodwill ambassadors have been part of the charitable landscape for many years the unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on . Global development 20 can philanthropists the public and the poor make poverty history item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help . The resource global development 20 can philanthropists the public and the poor make poverty history lael brainard derek chollet editors. Poverty measure developed by sabina alkire and james foster at the oxford global development 20 can philanthropists the public and the poor make poverty history lael brainard and derek chollet eds brookings institution press 2295 isbn 9780815713937 kumi naidoo is co chair of the global call to action against poverty gcap email kumi