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...
Here are this week’s highlights of the blog. What is the Right Way to Carry out Enterprise? Lord Brian Griffiths and Dato Dr. Kim Tan I claim that...
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...
Here’s a new video from LearnLiberty that shows how both well-intentioned and not-so-well-intentioned ideas can guarantee poverty. Watch the video to find out how we can reduce poverty...
Amidst our many debates concerning how to best help the poor, it’s easy to forget why we are helping in the first place. Of course, as Lord Brian...
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...
From likely high school dropouts to successful teenage entrepreneurs – these are the participants in BUILD, a four-year program that teaches high schoolers how to write business plans,...
Yesterday on his personal blog, president of Sojourners and Obama’s spiritual advisor, Jim Wallis, discussed how he believes Americans can win the war on poverty: The only way...
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Why Extreme Poverty Will Not Always Be with Us
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its 2014 Annual Report last week. In it, Bill and Melinda Gates outline and challenge three myths about global poverty. The...