The Lived Experience of Poverty

Business School professor Ronald Paul Hill examines six poverty subpopulations and their strategies for coping with consumer restriction in their daily lives. He also develops some strategies for poverty eradication in the 21st century. From the conclusion…...

Affluenza

Analyzing a single issue of a Sunday supplement magazine, Joseph Mulligan reflects on the disease of “affluenza,” its epidemic and its impact on those who immerse themselves in service to the poor. Excerpt from the middle of the article… Christian...

Human Development Facts

Did you know?… Facts culled from UN Human Development 2002 report .A sampling… • There have been great improvements in human political and civil rights: since 1980, 81 countries have taken significant steps in democratization, with 33 military regimes...

Politics matter for human development.

Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress. UN Report on Human Development 2002Democracy has proven to be the system of governance most capable of mediating and preventing conflict and...
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