February 14, 2014
February 05, 2014
What Liberal Evangelicals Should Know About the Economic Views of Conservative Evangelicals (Part 2)
February 05, 2014
The Boring Work Of Development
February 04, 2014
From Aid to Enterprise
Can the current model of humanitarian aid generated by networks of large philanthropic foundations, NGOs, and Western governments actually alleviate global poverty? The latest Liberty Law Talk podcast asks Acton’s Michael Miller, director of the new Poverty Cure Initiative, to address that question and to explain what conditions can lead to prosperity:
As Miller discusses, the prevalent humanitarian aid model frequently uproots the very beginnings of the circles of exchange that must exist for wealth to be created in these societies. Continue Reading...
February 03, 2014
Business and the Option for the Poor
January 31, 2014
Transformation Starts with Culture
“We need transformation, relief, and opportunity…in that order,” says AEI’s Arthur Brooks in a new video on conservatism and poverty alleviation. “Transformation starts with culture. Transformation is faith, family, community, and work…That’s the beginning of getting people into the process of rising.” Continue Reading...
January 30, 2014
5 Essential Principles of Poverty-Alleviation
January 28, 2014
Actually, We Won the War on Poverty
January 23, 2014
Handing Down Poverty, Mother To Daughter
January 22, 2014
Rural Cuba and the tragedy of the commons
Michael J. Totten has a new piece on his travels through Cuba, this one focused on rural Cuba. “Most of the Cuban landscape I saw is already deforested,” he writes. “It’s just not being used. Continue Reading...