epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Abhijit Banerjee

For these reasons, micro insurance may not become the next billion-client market opportunity: There seem to be deep reasons that most people don’t yet feel very comfortable with the kinds ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Jacqueline Novogratz [Novogratz, Jacqueline]

Inside the village, we sat together with the women and were handed cool coconut water-which had never tasted better. The women stood in the sun and made presentations about their ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Annette Lareau

WORRYING ABOUT BEING TURNED IN This general feeling of unease with the school would, at times, explode into a crisis when the physical discipline practiced at home made them vulnerable ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Bageant, Joe [Bageant, Joe]

Recalling Ed and Charlie in their funky old guys’ lair by the creek, it occurs to me that not once did we mention the Second Amendment. But then not many ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

THE SONG OF Williamsburg was played by thousands and thousands of feet on the wood planks of the walkway on the Williamsburg Bridge, one of three gray iron bridges crossing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-06 | Author:Peter Singer

7. Improving Aid Though we have already looked briefly at some common objections to aid, we haven’t yet done justice to the serious critics who point out that many aid ...

mobi |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:David Hilfiker

It is no coincidence that social insurance programs are administered by the federal government using nationally uniform standards and benefits pegged to inflation. Public assistance programs, on the other hand, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Importance of Meaningful Work Nearly every study of happiness underscores the importance of meaningful work to personal well-being. Unemployment is the single largest factor in the public’s unhappiness and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Danielle Steel

FIVE The Clients: Who Are They? Although it’s not unusual for me to forget the name or face of someone I meet at a dinner party, I rarely forgot a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:George Orwell

XX THE PATRON had engaged me as kitchen plongeur, that is, my job was to wash up, keep the kitchen clean, prepare vegetables, make tea, coffee and sandwiches, do the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...

epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...