Amjad Idries

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty. Drawing on two decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress.

In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself.

Imagine a platform where you can earn massive monthly income by simply creating online tutorial courses on any topic or niche of your choice, from making money online to WordPress tutorials, and market them to over five million students on the world's largest e-learning marketplace, popularly known as Udemy. Udemy, launched in 2010, is a paid MOOC (massive online open course) platform that allows practically anyone to create, publish, and earn money from an online course easily.