Kerala Miracle It’s really hard to find good links on the Kerala Miracle. Searching for that term typically returns, god help us, tourism to some kind of christian sacred site, which is not, at all, the kind of miracle most people are looking for when they google for those terms. Do us all a favor: [...]
Read more →http://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php Draft of a new piece over at Gupta Option. Soft Development Paths A tangible solution to global poverty and environmental degradation Sustainable development means different things to different people. This is a plan for making sustainable development completely tangible and real for the poorest half of the human race by creating a “soft development [...]
Read more →THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition. Corbis DUGOUT A father and daughter enter a Cold War bomb shelter. Enlarge This Image Warner Brothers Pictures ALIVE AND ALONE Will Smith stars in [...]
Read more →Cybernetics and Stafford Beer were introduced to me by a friend who was a former mainframe systems analyst interested in using Beer’s Viable Systems Model for the design of peace processes more resilient to spoiler dynamics in the erstwhile Sri Lankan peace process. http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/ict-socialism-and-apartheid/ About, you know, running Chile by computer and teletype machine in [...]
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Read more →Karelis argues that being poor is defined by having to deal with a multitude of problems: One doesn’t have enough money to pay rent or car insurance or credit card bills or day care or sometimes even food. Even if one works hard enough to pay off half of those costs, some fairly imposing ones [...]
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Read more →“Microfinance started in the 1970s with a focus on using this breakthrough to help end poverty,” said Sam Daley-Harris, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a nonprofit endeavor that promotes microfinance for families earning less than $1 a day. “Now it is in great danger of being how well the investors and the microfinance institutions [...]
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