TKO POVERTY

NOTE: TKO Poverty has ceased operations as of January 2016.

TKO Poverty was an anti-poverty campaign that Gary Lai founded as a student organization at Columbia University in 2005. Inspired by the thought leadership of Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, and the Mali scholar Gregory Mann, among others, it was focused on identifying economists with large, scalable poverty-fighting ideas. It operated until 2015, the deadline for countries to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal on extreme poverty. TKO Poverty was not politically affiliated and did not accept donations. Below are some of Lai's publications during the campaign:

Oil and the Resource Curse in Africa, Pointblank News (Nigeria), December 13, 2015.

The Challenge of  "New World Syndrome." The China Post, December 12, 2015.

Africa is Not Yet Ready to Stand on Its Own. The Monitor (Uganda), October 29, 2015.

US-Cuba Deal a Win-Win. The Toronto Star, December 28, 2014.

Philanthropic Doctor Known for Work in Eastern Europe. Vancouver Sun, October 1, 2008. 

More to World Poverty than Sachs, Columbia Daily Spectator, November 23, 2005.