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MS. Foundation: Change the Way the World Works
The Ms. Foundation for Women has been creating opportunities for women and girls for 30 years. We know that when we invest in women and girls, helping them develop their voices and ski...
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http://ms.foundation.org
Nicholas Kristof, "Can This Be Pro-Life? (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 8, 2008) - on the Bush administration's defunding of African family-planning clinics
Kristof is outraged that the Bush administration has undercut the efforts of the Marie Stopes International aid group to provide contraception to poor women in rural Africa, pointing out ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09kristof.html?ex=1381291200&en=6049b149886b2034&e...
Do It Together - CHina
中国扶贫基金会
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http://www.fupin.org.cn/en/index.asp
Whiteband.org
Action Now: End Poverty and Inequality — Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
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http://www.whiteband.org/Action/take-action/actionnow
Crisis
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http://www.crisis.org.uk
Ohio GOP plans to challenge voters on the basis of home foreclosures
The Ohio Republican Party is stationing volunteer "election challengers" at polling places around the state and arming them with a list of foreclosed homes. Anyone on the list who tries t...
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http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
Complexity trap: Local vs. global knowledge in development work | crisscrossed
There is a growing need to link the local with the global in development work. Sharing and mixing knowledge is as important as relying on an interdisciplinary approach.
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http://www.crisscrossed.net/2008/05/12/complexity-trap-local-vs-global-knowledge-in-developm...
The Simple Dollar » Frugality and the Impression of Poverty
Things that went from being viewed as patriotic and a social “good” to being signs of poverty and a social “bad” are all tied to buying more stuff.
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http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/05/17/frugality-and-the-impression-of-poverty
Amazon.com: Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet: Jeffrey D. Sachs: Books
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http://www.amazon.com/Common-Wealth-Economics-Crowded-Planet/dp/1594201277
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, according to one of the wor...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2221372,00.html
Living in Junk Food County | Newsweek Health for Life | Newsweek.com
Why many rural Americans can't get nutritious foods: limited availability of healthy food and poverty. On top of that, because of their poverty, they're in fear of hunger.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/76929
Why Bill Gates Hates My Book - By William R. Easterly - WSJ.com
Much research suggests that "picking winners" through government industrial policy hasn't worked. Winners are too unpredictable to be discovered by government bureaucrats, much less by ou...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120235183917849631.html
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'
Past lessons have shown that many Africans are entrepreneurial enough to develop their own services and solutions once a technology arrives.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6986804.stm
Review: The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
Conflict is one of four 'poverty traps' that the bottom billion will be unable to escape without our help. The other three are being landlocked, especially when the neighbouring countries...
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2099345,00.html
The West Can't Save Africa
Economic development in Africa will depend -- as it has elsewhere and throughout the history of the modern world -- on the success of private-sector entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs an...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021201150.html
Debate: 'Is foreign aid working?' by William Easterly | Prospect Magazine November 2006 issue 128
Is Britain's international development department raising expectations it cannot meet? A prominent aid critic (William Easterly) takes on the secretary of state (Hilary Benn).
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http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7914
William Easterly
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http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly
A Modest Proposal (washingtonpost.com)
Yes, do read Sachs's eloquent descriptions of poverty and his compelling ethical case for the rich to help the poor. Just say no to the Big Plan.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25562-2005Mar10.html
Jeffrey Sachs: How I'd fix the World Bank - Jun. 26, 2007
The core problem in Africa is not corruption but the lack of basic infrastructure and services. Like all poor regions (and rich nations like the U.S.), Africa has its corruption problems,...
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/news/economy/sachs_worldbank.fortune/?postversion=2007062606
The End of Poverty: An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs
Sachs, who gained renown for advising Latin American and Asian governments on economic reform, has gained popularity as "can-do" economist amidst a cacophony of naysayers on development.
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/05/jeffrey_sachs.html
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savior of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won't settle for less than the global eradication of ex...
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/sachs200707
Interview with Muhammad Yunus - CNN.com
poverty ultimately is the breeding ground for violence, breeding ground for all kinds of political turmoil, breeding ground for terrorism.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/05/talkasia.yunus/index.html?iref=newssearch
Half an Hour: Improving Socio-Economic Status
The failure of money alone to solve the problems does not mean that the problems are not caused, at least in part, by a lack of money.
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http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/02/improving-socio-economic-status.html
ANALYSIS-Seeds of class war sprout in Kenya's crisis | Reuters
Some Kenyans believe the bloody post-election crisis that has exposed the east African country's tribal divisions could also inflame the gulf between classes and further exacerbate instab...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSL13548841
Poverty Is Poison
America’s failure to make progress in reducing poverty, especially among children, should provoke a lot of soul-searching. Unfortunately, what it often seems to provoke instead is great...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html?ex=1361077200&en=aaa7e4a1c95ad3b2&e...
FT.com / Home UK / UK - Poverty mars formation of infant brains
Neuroscientists said many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fb7535b4-dc30-11dc-bc82-0000779fd2ac.html
Seed: The Reinvention of the Self
Symptoms of poverty are not simply states of mind; they actually warp the mind. Because neurons are designed to reflect their circumstances, not to rise above them, the monotonous stress ...
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http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/02/the_reinvention_of_the_self.php
Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all
This web site looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related. The issues discussed range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human ...
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http://www.globalissues.org
…My heart’s in Accra » TED2008: Paul Collier - Compassion and enlightened self-interest
Collier tells us that “unless we have an informed society, politicans will get away with gestures.” To build an informed citizenry, Collier “broke all the professional rules and wro...
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http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/01/ted2008-paul-collier-compassion-and-enlightene...
author interviews: Paul Collier
People have been saying for years that a 'one size fits all' approach does not work, but I am specific in why it won't, and why on the other hand we don't have to go to the other extreme ...
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http://writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/paul-collier.html
Bhagwati Discusses Anxiety, Globalization, and Jeffrey Sachs | Columbia Spectator
His 2004 book, In Defense of Globalization, has been re-released, complete with a new afterword detailing the evolution of the arguments originally presented for and against economic glob...
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http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/27634
Enriching education throughout childhood pays big dividends for disadvanted
While studies have shown that disadvantaged children benefit from high-quality preschool programs, they would benefit even more if they had additional tutoring and mentoring during their ...
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoc-eet111306.php
When the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty
While Gandhi's goal was the end of colonialism, Yunus' is just as grand: He means to reform capitalism to make it a tool for ending poverty.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_10/b4074085355044.htm
WorldChanging: Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
While Collier’s work is significantly more nuanced than most popular books on development economics, he’s not exactly shy or soft-spoken.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007887.html
Interview: Alex Steffen - CNN.com
The most powerful work in the world right now is all happening online.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/04/steffen.qa
"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the li...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
LawHelp: National Home Page
LawHelp helps low and moderate income people find free legal aid programs in their communities, and answers to questions about their legal rights.
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http://www.lawhelp.org
MicroPlace, an eBay Company: Make an investment, help relieve global poverty.
At MicroPlace, you can make investments that reach millions of hard-working poor people worldwide.
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https://www.microplace.com
MicroPlace, an eBay Company: Make an investment, help relieve global poverty.
At MicroPlace, you can make investments that reach millions of hard-working poor people worldwide.
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https://www.microplace.com/?_trksid=p3907.m33
The ONE Campaign | FrontPage
A Drupal site put together by Yahoo
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http://one.org
More on the crime of feeding the Orlando, Fla. homeless
Also see this clip: http://snipr.com/1scg6
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3358/feeding_the_hungry_is_a_crime