Poverty | -More poverty action labs needed-

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Photo: Wahid Adnan/ Drik News    Abdullah Shibli Last Spring, I co-taught a multi-disciplinary course with my wife, a social worker, at the Bridgewater State University on the socio-economics of Bangladesh. One of the topics we covered was “Poverty and Measures to Remove Poverty,” and we proudly mentioned Grameen, Brac, and [...]

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Poverty | -Definitions of Poverty-

The first book on my reading list is Jeffrey Sachs’ “End of Poverty”. The book is so far well-written and interesting. Sachs uses the World Bank definition of poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as having less than $1 per person per day and moderate poverty is defined as having between $1 and $2 per person [...]

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Poverty|-is it possible to be vulnerable to poverty?-

“Vulnerability is the risk of falling into poverty in the future, even if the person is not necessarily poor now. Vulnerability is often associated with the effects of “shocks” such as a drought, a drop in farm prices, or a financial crisis. Vulnerability is a key dimension of well-being since it affects individuals’ behavior in [...]

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The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution.

The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution When Empire Hits Home, Part 3 Global Research, April 7, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series, "When Empire Hits Home." Part 1: War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty Part 2: Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class As nations [...]

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Civilising globalization: Is globalization making world poverty worse?

Essay written by Giancarlo de Vera (c) 2011 Executive Summary There has been a general argument that endogenous growth has had beneficial effects on the world’s poorest, however as this essay will argue the causal relationship between globalization and poverty has not been clearly specified or explained in the literature largely because of questionable empirical [...]

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Rivers of Babylon Speech: Was Enoch Powell Right or Wrong?

Introduction     What does it mean to be poor? How is poverty measured? Third World countries are often described as “developing” while the First World, industrialized nations are often “developed”. What does it mean to describe a nation as “developing”? A lack of material wealth does not necessarily mean that one is deprived. A [...]

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World Report on Disability Launched.

On June 9, 2011, the first World Report on Disability was released. The report was produced through a partnership between the World Health Organization and the World Bank. A summary of the 300-page report is provided here, highlighting the main issues and recommendations. In the coming weeks, the main points of chapters of the report [...]

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A run on Grameen Bank’s integrity, as founder’s career ends in disgrace.

Patrick Bond Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted. The rot is spreading so fast and far that the entire global microfinance industry is threatened. Controversy ranges far beyond poisonous local politics, the factor most often cited by those despondent about Grameen Bank’s worsening crisis. True, at first glance we se … Read More [...]

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