Barron's Recap: Africa's Aid Mess
December 01, 2013 at 12:49 PM EST
This weekend in Barron's online: Paul Theroux discusses why the philanthropy of Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Bono in Africa largely fails. Also the prospects for Capital One, how to profit from activist investors and more. Cover Story " Africa's Aid Mess " by Paul Theroux. "Telescopic philanthropy," as Charles Dickens called it, is