Charity, philanthropy and development in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Trading Futures

“…It has been against this background of market diversifi cation on the one side, and growing risks of health inequality on the other side, that recent philanthropic investments in health have played out. Our research in Colombo revealed very high levels of voluntary investment in health infrastructure, public health drives, community health camps, and patient sponsorship-amounting to what we term a health philanthroscape (Osella et al 2015). Sri Lanka also boasts the highest levels of blood, organ, and whole body donation in the world, with the supply in corneas outstripping local demand to such a degree that the island exports tissues to countries around the world (Simpson 2017).…”

“…Th roughout our fi eldwork in Colombo, we regularly encountered the belief that charity recipients failed to appreciate the help they were given unless required to "give something back" (Osella et al 2015). Middle class interlocutors worried this had the eff ect of encouraging dependency, despondency, and lack of self-esteem among the poor, and it also signaled their inability to participate in "spiritual economies" (Rudnyckyj 2010) of gift ing that provided a key means through which blessings and merits could be accrued (Haniff a 2017; Osella 2017)-a distinctive feature of the Sri Lankan health philanthroscape.…”

Visions of philanthronationalism: the (in)equities of corporate good governance in Sri Lanka

“…July 2013 as part of a wider project exploring forms of charity and philanthropy in Sri Lanka forms the empirical base of the article (for an overview see: Osella, Stirrat, & Widger, 2015).…”

“…This climate of tolerance, openness, and diversity fostered one too of creativity and innovation, from which all could benefit. As Amal explained: In Amal's firm, as in many of those I studied, ethical demands derive from the wellestablished idea that those in positions of acclaim and power have, first and foremost, a moral obligation to give (Jayawardena, 2000;Osella et al, 2015) This obligation is called upon by the poor not simply because they wish to materially benefit or do not care about employment rights, but because of the relationalities that are created by the flow of giftswhere things travel, so sentiments follow. The moral obligation of the company towards its human capital is best expressed not through policies and programmes that make the firm a 'great place to work,' but rather policies that can create a moral community of benefactors and beneficiaries that ties rich and poor together (Caplan, 1998).…”

Giving Behavior in Turkey: Determinants of Individual Donations and Volunteering

“…For example, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy by Wiepking and Handy (2015) provides an excellent overview on the nature of and approach to philanthropy in many countries in the developing world; however, its focus is not on the determinants of giving. A review Copyright © 2017 Ali Çarkoğlu, Selim Erdem Aytaç, and David A. Campbell http://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jmp DOI: https://doi.org/10.18060/21409 of the recent academic research on individual giving practices in developing countries yields only a handful of studies, that is, from Mexico (Butcher Garcia-Colin & Santiago, 2016), South Africa (Everatt et al, 2005), Sri Lanka (Osella et al, 2015), and Puerto Rico (Osili et al, 2016). Furthermore, researchers have only begun to examine whether what we have learned about giving behavior in particular settings is generalizable across countries and cultures.…”