Archive for the ‘Global Poverty’ Category

Life on the financial edge and the Anti-Prostitution Pledge

Life on the financial edge and the Anti-Prostitution Pledge
As the global economic crisis has entrenched deeply over the past few years, people of all income levels have become desperate for some level of financial stability. This is particularly true for those who were already living on the edge financially before the crisis hit. Some of those who have been...
May 18th, 2011 | Featured, Global Poverty, Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

Put the micro back in microfinance

Put the micro back in microfinance
Late last week Muhammad Yunus stepped down as managing director of Grameen Bank, 28 years after its founding. His departure ended a nearly six-month saga that began when the Bangladeshi government took advantage of a Norwegian investigation into the Bank’s wrongdoing, to launch a political offensive...
May 16th, 2011 | Featured, Global Poverty | Read More

Poverty in Angola

Poverty in Angola
By Patricia Cunningham II, PhD candidate, The Ohio State University and Jonathan Fish Finance and Economics Major, at The Ohio State University, GLOBAL POVERTY: Visiting Angola Angola’s tremulous history is blistered with civil uprisings but most of the scars come from colonialism.  Before it was...
May 16th, 2011 | Featured, Global Poverty | Read More