Is everything America has been, is now and forever will be a result of rich people's generosity?
But the true figures highlight the dishonesty of the aid narrative, which portrays Africa as the grateful beneficiary of the rich world's generosity, and its hope for the future resting on how charitable we choose to be.
Thanks to the generosity of rich Sienese, it came to own huge tracts of farmland and became an economic powerhouse beginning in the 14th century.
Her daughter Sarah gave an unforgettable, perfectly judged eulogy, in which she spoke with pride of her mother's career but also conjured up a childhood growing up in a family and a household rich in warmth and generosity.
Over the decades, 0.7% has been repeatedly re-endorsed at international conferences, becoming a key rallying cry for aid activists and a common yardstick for the generosity of rich countries.
I don't mean she was a poor woman though; neither was she a materially wealthy woman but she was rich in love and generosity.
Whatever the circumstances in China, Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates do have one lesson to teach their billionaire counterparts: generosity makes the rich more likeable.
Against this generosity towards the rich, the most vulnerable members of society have no prospect of a human rights challenge to the cuts.
With this program, Yale Health also seeks to create new and sustaining ties to artists with any of a variety of Yale affiliations, whether as students, faculty, staff or others, to promote the talent and generosity within this rich community.
They are also Investing: Implicit in Stern's critique about the limited generosity of the rich is the idea that what they do with the funds they do not give to charity are reserved for their own, hedonistic pleasure.
