What’s the best way to help the poor without trapping individuals in a cycle of dependency? It’s not aid. Not philanthropy. Not even straightforward commercial activity. Previous posts...
If foreign aid is not necessarily the best approach to economic development because it muddles incentives and is ineffective, what are our alternatives? Can we help those trapped...
Poverty is an extraordinary waste of human potential. The phrases used to describe creation – “let the water teem with living creatures,” “let birds fly above the earth...
The winners of the PovertyCure International Short Film Festival have been chosen. And all seven winning films are poignant calls to awareness about the causes of and solutions...
Planet Money created a video series about what it takes to make a t-shirt. The host says in the intro clip, Behind this shirt, there is an entire...
Why do some nations prosper and others perpetually struggle? Last week at the Family Research Council in Washington D.C., theologian Wayne Grudem shared which factors are most influential...
I have noticed something peculiar during my time as a visiting professor at the African Bible University (ABU). On several visits I noticed that the Western media covered...
What’s the most moral and biblical solution to poverty? Theologian Wayne Grudem argues that free enterprise is the best answer to this question, according to Tyler O’Neil at...
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IFWE’s Weekly Recap – 12.13.13
In case you missed it – here are the top articles published on the blog this week. Christian History’s Radical Approach to Poverty Richard Turnbull Evangelicals have historically...