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Beijing +5 - Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century Tw... - 0 views

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    This page looks at the corellation between poverty and women, and how the majority of people in the world living on less than 1 dollar a day are women. This is called the feminization of poverty. The page looks at  how globalization has effected the role of women and how change can be made.
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Microcredit - Microfinance-Credit lending models - 0 views

www.grameen-info.org/...cmodel.html

loanmodels microcredit poverty

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    Site has a breakdown of a number of different models used by microfinance institutions, including the Grameen bank model created by Dr. Yumus, and those of NGOs.
  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Site has a breakdown of a number of different models used by microfinance institutions, including the Grameen bank model created by Dr. Yumus, and those of NGOs.
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Oxfam International - OI English Homepage - 0 views

www.oxfam.org/en

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    Oxfam international is a confederation of multiple organizations that work together to find solutions to poverty and injustice. They view many of the problems being the result of globalization. The site includes information on their policies, studies, programs and analysis.
Aaron Scott

spiked | 'Bob Geldof, you are not our messiah' - 0 views

www.spiked-online.com/index.php

bobgeldof g8 poverty

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    Article that criticizes specifically Bob Geldof, Bono, Tony Blair, and others behind the Group of Eight, but more broadely all westerners who believe that those in Africa need a savior, that its the White Man's Burden, to help those in need, and that we have the right answers and they can't make smart choices for themselves.
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Make Poverty History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Make_Poverty_History

poverty

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    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
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Microcredit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Microcredit

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    Overview of the history of Microcredit, as well as some of the banks and loan organizations that are considered as microfinance institutions. Also has principles of microfinance, as well as sections on strengths and criticisms.
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UN Millennium Project | About the MDGs - 0 views

www.unmillenniumproject.org/...index.htm

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    This is the website for the Millennium Project which Easterly uses as an example in his discussion of Planners. The project has laid out a number of goals (MDG's) which the project will use to address the many forms of extreme poverty.
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G8 breaks pledges on poverty, millions dying : Mail & Guardian Online - 0 views

www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx

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    Article that gives an example of a "Planner", the Group of Eight, that is failing to meet its Big Plans/Goals.
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YouTube - Impact of Technology on Microfinance - 0 views

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microcredit poverty

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    Short video on how technology will affect/improve the potential of microfinance. He talks about how they tried a village computing center, but also how they (Grameen Bank) are working on using mobile phones that will allow borrowers to access bank accounts, and connect to customers to improve business transactions, and many other things.  
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YouTube - Damned by Debt Relief - 0 views

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    A video that criticizes the G8's debt relief because even though it tells the people that their debt will be cancelled, they then tell them how and when they can invest their money, rather than allowing the people to make their own decisions.
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YouTube - Microcredit debate - 0 views

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debate microcredit poverty

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    Debate on microcredit and its effectiveness as a solution to poverty. One of the ladies says that microcredit is only a solution in some contexts, and that it others contexts it can actually create problems, where it can create a new kind of debt trap.
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Most Poverty Solutions Miss Central Issue - The George Foundation - 0 views

www.tgfworld.org/s%20Miss%20Central%20Issue.htm

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    Article that was written in response to Jeffrey Sachs "The End of Poverty". This article, like that of Easterly's, states that what is needed is a new model of poverty solution, His suggestion is that government's role should not be of manager or director of change, but rather just a catalyst for change. Also the author believes there needs to be a focus on farming, and incentives, loans, and tax breaks to help build rural areas.
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Project Concern International: Health and poverty solutions for children in need - Proj... - 0 views

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    This organization works to fight against poverty by providing health care and development to those communities and families that can't afford it. Interestingly, on its mission statement page, one of its operating principles listed is Accountability, which is what Easterly said was one of the things that seperated planners and searchers.
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Stir : Issues : War on Poverty - 0 views

stir.org.au/...Content.aspx

poverty

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    This site looks at multiple issues, one being poverty, and different definitions, facts, stories, discussions, and proposed solutions. Its solutions focuses on the Millenium Developmental Goals that Easterly talked about in his discussion of Planners.
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Poverty - The Global Relations of the Many Nations - 0 views

library.thinkquest.org/...poverty.shtml

poverty

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  • All over the world, countries are stricken with famine. Children and adults alike are forced to live in miserable circumstances without proper living conditions or enough food. This situation, known as poverty, is an economic condition brought about when people lack sufficient income to be able to provide health services, h
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    This site explores some social and historical causes of poverty, as well as other issues, in a number of countries including the US. It also has testimonies of those who have struggled with poverty and different organizations and ways to get involved to help the cause of the people around the world.
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Global Rich List - 0 views

www.globalrichlist.com

poverty

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    Interesting site that lets you know where you are at financially compared to the rest of the world.
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CARE :: Defending Dignity. Fighting Poverty. - 0 views

www.care.org

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    CARE seems like it has some of Easterly's Planner tendencies in that it has some Big Goals
    (and celebrity faces on its homepage) but it seems that many of its methods are more those of searchers in that it gets involved with local families and communities to understand the problems they face and ways that they can help them.
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Video - Subsidy System - 0 views

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    This video show how both African and American farming families struggle because of commodity subsidies given to producers from the US government. In this case there are a few number of farmers that benefit while the majority suffer. Here we can see how choices made by our gaovernment affect not only us but others as well.
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    This video show how both African and American farming families struggle because of commodity subsidies given to producers from the US government. In this case there are a few number of farmers that benefit while the majority suffer. Here we can see how choices made by our gaovernment affect not only us but others as well.
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YouTube - Carry on up the NGO - 0 views

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africa ngo poverty

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    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.
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