by Beth | Nov 28, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
GENOA, Italy, NOV. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Loans by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as country-to-country loans, are usurious and should be declared illegal, says the archbishop of Genoa. Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone voiced this criticism when...
by Beth | Nov 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 26, 2005 (Zenit.org).- International migration can be an important tool in helping developing countries, affirmed a World Bank report published Nov. 16. Migrants and the money they send back home, remittances, is the main theme in the annual...
by Beth | Nov 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The dire struggle to survive in the U.S. on near-minimum wage jobs is the subject of “Waging a Living,” a forthright documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roger Weisberg. Through sensitive, in-depth profiles of four workers, Weisberg drives home the...
by Beth | Nov 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Reuters carries a reprot on the shattered hope of people promised prosperity after pipeline development. … grinding poverty in oil producers like Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea show that petrodollars often do not translate into a better life for local people...
by Beth | Nov 15, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a different kind of “plunge” on November 9 SJU students were invited to experience something of homelessness by sleeping on the lawn at SJU and then reflecting on the experience with the help of a formerly homeless person.From the campus flier… A...
