A study by the Global Policy Forum, which monitors UN bodies and global policy-making, has found that ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries. Organisations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others, are promoting solutions to global problems that may undermine the UN and other international organisations. With assets of more than $360bn (£250bn), the world’s 27 largest foundations give roughly $15bn Nineteen of the 27 to charitable causes. annually are American. According to the report, the Gates foundation is now the second largest donor to the World Health Organisation after the US, as well as one of the world’s largest single investors in biotechnology for farming and pharmaceuticals.
A study by the Global Policy Forum, which monitors UN bodies and global policy-making, has found that ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries. Organisations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others, are promoting solutions to global problems that may undermine the UN and other international organisations. With assets of more than $360bn (£250bn), the world’s 27 largest foundations give roughly $15bn annually to charitable causes. Nineteen of the 27 are American. According to the report, the Gates foundation is now the second largest donor to the World Health Organisation after the US, as well as one of the world’s largest single investors in biotechnology for farming and pharmaceuticals.