Interesting video that looks at NGO's and how they have in treated the African people that they support with their own programs that they think will benefit the people and not what the people themselves believe that they need. Also it says that one NGO in Ghana asked a girl to cry for a video they were making, in order to help raise more money, but that money did not even go to that girl/her people.

Video about Dr. Muhammad Yunus who started the Grameen Bank in India. Video talks about the methods used by Yunus and his bank in Bangledesh, and in other parts of the world.  It also looks at how he started this idea and the struggles he had when he originally talked with other banks to get them to provide loans to the poor.

Video about Unitus, a global microfinance accelerator that works with several microfinance institutions to help provide microcredit loans and health insurance to the poor.

This site explores factors of poverty (as a social problem). It starts by stating the difference between a factor and a cause. A cause being that which gave rise to poverty in its origin, and a factor being something that contributes to its continuation. The five factors that this site focuses on are ignorance, disease, apathy, dishonesty, and dependency.

This article looks at two approaches to poverty removal. The first being focused on poverty as an income concept and thus removing poverty would be done through raising incomes, and the second looks at poverty as vulnerabiltiy to economic and social problems and thus focuses on social programs of education and health provision. SEWA, the Self Employed Women's Association, then goes on to give thier approach to poverty removal which is a combination of the two approaches.

Cool music video that explores the power of the dollar and what can be payed for with the money that it would normally cost to make a music video.

Here are some lyrics to a song that I thought was relevant to todays discussion of corporations. The song is called Giants by the band Five Iron Frenzy.

Here is the website to the organization that is putting in the merrygoround/waterpumps that I talked a little about today in class.

Interesting site that lets you know where you are at financially compared to the rest of the world.