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| | Right on schedule, Chinese officials have declared they have officially met the target of eliminating extreme poverty by 2020. The anti-poverty campaign was one of Xi Jinping's signature initiatives over the past three years. With its focus on the rural poor and neglected regions, the initiative had a more "socialist" flavor compared to Xi's two...
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| | The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. ... We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go...
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| | Zainab Usman describes the opportunity to reconstruct the effort addressing world poverty and social deprivation in his Foreign Affairs article The End of the Global Aid Industry. Below is a synopsis of his vision in italics with my bolds and added images. Following that is a previous post discussing how benevolence can go astray. USAID's...
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| { This post is mostly stringing together my scattered tweets over the past couple of weeks. I've had numerous discussions on this subject with Vincent Geloso, Judy Stephenson, Ben Schneider, Benjamin Guilbert, Anton Howes, and Mark Koyama. But yesterday Geloso sent me the paper he's working on for Alsatian wages and that kick-started furtherthoughts I...