I participated in an interesting summit of academics and government officials towards the end of the summer. The event, “Revitalizing Rural Development for Poverty Eradication in Asia,” featured three tracks…
Tag: Poverty
The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy
Plutocrats and their ideologues like to claim that too equal an income distribution destroys incentives to work and turns us into a “nation of takers.” But a return to the…
It’s time to move beyond growth for growth’s sake
There are two problems with economic growth as a measure of wellbeing. First, the correlation between economic growth and poverty reduction is weak. It’s a reminder that intuition and ‘common…
Could you live on $1.90 a day? That’s the international poverty line – Jason Hickel for The Guardian
A few weeks ago the World Bank changed the international poverty line from $1.25 to $1.90 per day. Normally, changes to the poverty line slide by without attracting much attention,…
Lunch on a Budget
Having coffee at the end of a bike ride this afternoon, I overheard the following exchange between an older gentlemen and a cashier: McChicken and a McDouble today sir?
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
We seem overloaded with problems and headed in negative directions on many fronts. (Environment, society, politics, business, poverty, food, health care, animal & human rights, etc.) On top of that, our…