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‘Cause it’s Beth

Monday, January 11, 2010

Today is her Beth Kanter’s 53rd birthday and she is asking her trusted network to join her to raise funds for the Sharing Foundation, and help send some young people to school, where they belong. In Beth’s words…
Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, [...]

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What would you do with $700 billion?

Friday, September 26, 2008

I can’t get this out of my head.

I know this is simplistic, and I’d never have dreamt making this sort of comparison when I studied Development Economics two decades ago.
But wait a minute, when other, less powerful nations needed bailouts in the past, weren’t these accompanied by stringent conditions? At the same time the rich nations exalted [...]

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