Category: Poverty
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Relationships That Make a Difference – Bob Lupton
FCS Ministries Blog: Relationships That Make a Difference Relationships. Two teenagers tossing a football. A couple falling in love, getting married, having kids. Business partners launching a new venture. Church friends sharing a meal. Relationships all. Why do we have them? Fun, intimacy, profit, nurture? For social creatures like us, relationships have a whole range…
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Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight? (It’s Not Food Deserts.)
Pacific Standard: Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight? … More recently, in Slate, Heather Tirado Gilligan cites peer-reviewed research to conclude: "[M]ore fresh food closer to home likely does nothing for folks at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Obesity levels don't drop when low-income city neighborhoods have or get grocery stores."… ……
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Startup Offers Payday Advances Without the Pesky Loan-Sharking
Wired: Startup Offers Payday Advances Without the Pesky Loan-Sharking "… According to Palaniappan, the real culprit here is the very concept of the payday. The way he see is, there’s no reason people who already have done their work should have to wait several days, or even weeks, to get the money they’ve rightfully earned.…
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Universal Basic Income: A Thought Experiment
Conversable Economist: Universal Basic Income: A Thought Experiment "… What about the politics of a universal basic income? It's no surprise that many who lean liberal like the idea of guaranteeing a basic income. However, the idea has a reasonable number of conservative and libertarian supporters, who like the idea of a program that addresses…
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Forget “Fair Trade”: A Supply Chain Overhaul To Boost Coffee Farmers’ Income 400%
Forbes: A Supply Chain Overhaul To Boost Coffee Farmers' Income 400% This is about a social enterprise on a mission to reinvent the coffee supply chain, giving farmers a bigger and more equitable piece of the action. Aimed at growers producing specialty-grade, premium, Fair Trade certified coffee, Vega hopes to enable farmers to roast and…
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Measuring Inequality: On Using Snapshots When Only Video Will Do
When it comes to understanding inequality, the debate is frequently burdened with many misunderstandings about data. When talking about wealth inequality, we see statements like "85 people own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity." Wealth is routinely misunderstood to mean money and things someone owns. It isn't. Wealth is someone's total assets minus…
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Economic Development Links
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in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, Central America, China, Demography, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Gender and Sex, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, International Affairs, Links – Economic Development, Poverty, Technology (Food & Water), Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution1. Economist: March of the Middle Class 2. Chrsitianity Today: Poverty Is a Moral Problem – Interview with William Easterly … The sad thing is that the field and practice of development have too often been on the wrong side of this debate. They’ve implicitly painted themselves into a corner where they’re on the authoritarian…
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How focusing on profit can help the poor
Christian Science Monitor: How focusing on profit can help the poor Water technology company Xylem makes a profit on its foot-operated irrigation pumps for poor farmers. But those profits allow it to stay around to service its products and develop new ones. When leading water technology company Xylem started manufacturing simple pumps for smallholder farmers,…
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“Buying ‘Fair trade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor”
Economist: Not so fair trade BUYING ‘Fairtrade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor, new research suggests. By comparing living standards in Fairtrade-certified producing areas in Ethiopia and Uganda with similar non-Fairtrade regions, four development economists from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London found that Fair Trade agricultural workers often…