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PATH named world’s 6th best NGO; Gates doesn’t make the list
By Tom Paulson
All those magazine rankings out there — of the best hospitals, best doctors or best sushi bars — are popular but often highly suspect if not downright absurd due to organizations manipulating the evaluation process, weird and arbitrary criteria or just plain old sloppiness.
Nevertheless, the Global Journal, a Geneva-based magazine aimed at becoming the insider’s guide to what it describes as the “global issues” scene, published its own rankings.
It says Seattle's PATH is the 6th best NGO in the world, but left the Gates Foundation off the list. What gives?
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