Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
A powerful voice on “slum tourism”
If you haven’t read this op-ed in today’s NYT yet, it is an absolute must read. You might not agree with him, but Kennedy Odede, from Kibera, makes writes powerfully and beautifully about what it’s like to be looked at on a slum tour.
Boozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock
In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this up, someone accused Nick Kristof of living under a rock. Accused is a strong word. ‘Asked if he did’ is better.
I have been the cyber equivalent of living under a [...]
African poverty is falling. (Seriously.) Maybe it’s the tourism? (Doubt it.)
The ridiculously digitally prolific Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to a new paper from an MIT-Columbia team of authors who’ve found that across the board, poverty is falling in Africa. Not just in certain kinds of countries, with certain advantageous histories or certain huge amounts of minerals…everywhere. (In a sentence that has to have [...]
Stamp your passport at my gate
Fifty percent of my current household is European. European men, to be exact. (Actually, with the exception of me, everyone who lives here at the moment is a man, and I am beginning to feel like something of the Central African Hostel Madame, if by ‘madame’ you understand ‘woman who cleans up the [...]
Once more unto the beach, dear friends
I know most of you who read this blog, and I’m pretty sure that the five-star beach resort is less likely to make it onto your list of imminent vacation destinations than a place like, say, Luang Prabang, Laos.
It’s an ancient Buddhist village, protected (if you can really call it that) by war and poverty [...]
Rwanda’s street kids or America’s homeless: Who’s poorer?
A friend recently spent a month in California. While there, he took a trip to Venice Beach, and from the sounds of it, everything there surprised him. Like the crazy people who mutter to themselves and to anyone else who will listen. The most fantastical things roll effortlessly from of their [...]
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