Tag Archives: poverty alleviation

Pied Pipers and IDE

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Al Doerksen

On a recent trip to Ethiopia, one of my colleagues collected a couple of photos of himself with a larger group of the local kids.  I was ragging him a little about that saying that IDE doesn’t need any more … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with poverty alleviation?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Al Doerksen

Well, nothing really, since there are some one billion or more people below someone’s definition of poverty. Without a doubt, poverty is repugnant and abhorrent, just like starvation and hunger is. It invokes a visceral reaction. The trouble with “poverty … Continue reading →

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