Kudos to President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative for completing earlier this month a series of meetings culminating in $1.25 billion dollars of commitments from governments, non-commercial groups and businesses to combat poverty. The Initiative takes the excellent step of requiring participants to make written pledges that will be reviewed in one year.

It is puzzling that the Initiative apparently doesn't make these commitments public. While press releases trumpet the $1.25 billion figure, the Initiative web site lists only a small number of commitments to date. With transparency comes accountability. The hope is that the Initiative will become more transparent soon around these commendable commitments.