Equity

A Latin Solution to an African Problem

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Corruption, Alaska, Commodities, Equity, Latin America, Africa, Social Inclusion, Poverty, Direct Dividend Transfer, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Direct cash transfers can be more than a smart way to deliver social assistance. In fact, they may provide Africa with a neat solution to its most urgent problem: how to handle its massive commodity bonanza.

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Is It A Terrible Idea To Own Shares In Your Company's Stock?

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Investment Advice, Video, Stock Portfolio, Retirement Savings, Equity, Investment, Stock Market, Stock, Chesapeake Energy, Reuters, Your Money, Company Stock, Retirement Plans, Investors, Equities, Money News

By David K. Randall NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Buying stock that then falls sharply is painful, especially for investors who also ha...

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Admissions Policies That Embrace All Children

Donna Nevel | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Parent Organizing, Controlled Choice, Education, Access, Equity, Segregation, Inequality, Education News
Donna Nevel

Dismantling what is, in effect, a two-tiered, inequitable education system requires (among other things) opening up access to our public schools so that they truly serve all children.

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A Civil Right to a Good Education

Jack Jennings | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Title IX, School Vouchers, Equity, Charter Schools, Civil Rights, Nclb, School Funding, School Reform, Curriculum, Standards, Teachers, Education News
Jack Jennings

We should make equal educational opportunity a federal civil right for all students. This should include the right to a challenging curriculum, well-trained and effective teachers, and the funding to provide these essentials.

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Other People's Children

Sam Chaltain | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Texas, US Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Education, Equity, School Funding, Education Reform, Thurgood Marshall, Fairness, Video, Education News
Sam Chaltain

We continue to tolerate a system in which your zip code determines your access to the American Dream, and in which communities refuse to fund their schools because "their" children no longer go there.

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Catherine New

Why Gen Y Still Invests In Stocks

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: 401(K), Target-Funds, Investing, Millenials, Equity, Money, Stock Market, Bonds, Retirement, Gen Y, Roth IRA, Penions, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Business News

People born in the 1980s are more into the stock market than one might think, according to one new study. While analysts have worried that the volatil...

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Winners, Losers and the Beauty of Impact Analysis

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Developing Countries, Africa, Equity, Gasoline Prices, Budget, World Bank, Reform, Latin-America, Subsidies, Development, Inequality, Fiscal, Impact, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Whether reforms follow or not, the uncovering the true meaning of what our leaders do, has irresistible appeal in-and-of itself. No wonder impact analysis has become almost an academic obsession to the new generation of economists.

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Women Own 1% of the World's Property -- Occupy That

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Maternal Death, Equality, Women, Gender Bias, Violence Against Women, Poverty, Equity, Pay Equity, We Are Equals, Food Scarcity, Feminization of Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, Child Brides, Male Rights Movement, Girl Slaves, Patriarchy, Property, Gender, Starvation, Girl Effect, Oprah Winfrey, Half the Sky, Property Rights, Sex Slaves, Sexism, Slavery, Forbes, Stoning, Women News
Soraya Chemaly

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

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Stagflation Risk and What This Means for Stocks

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: UK, Sovereign Debt, Markets, Equity, Central Bank, Stocks, Money, Inflation, Imf, Growth, China, Policy, Pmi, Eu, Costs, Investing, Goldman Sachs, Bank of England, Unemployment, Wealth, Investment, Bond, Economists, Stagflation, Valuations, Business News
Gemma Godfrey

As the outlook for growth continues to deteriorate, whilst the price for goods and services remain stubbornly high, the risk of stagflation returns. This would be a tough scenario, where policy options tackling one of these issues would only worsen the other.

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How Did European Banks Trap Themselves in a Replay of the 2007 Crisis?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Stress Tests, Equity, Liquidity, Bonds, Christine Lagarde, Basel III, Imf, Larry Summers, Italy, Spain, Credit Crisis, Joseph Ackerman, Barack Obama, European Central Bank, Transparency, Proprietary Trading, Wall Street, Greece, Lehman Brothers, Banking Crisis, Ireland, Europe, Portugal, Business News
Georges Ugeux

At a conference in New York at the end of 2008, Obama's economic advisor, Larry Summers made a prophetic remark at an event organized by the Economist.

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Message to Feds: Stop Kicking the Can Down the Road and Call AAA

John H. Jackson | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Singapore, Education, Equity, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Finland, Canada, Opportunity Gap, High School Diploma, Economic Growth, Education Spending, College Degree, Education News
John H. Jackson

U.S. leaders would do well to seek advice from those countries that still have their AAA rating. These countries' leaders would likely boldly tell us that the best sustainable economic stimulus is investing in education.

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Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Taxes, Efficiency, Poverty, Development, Equity, Tax Reform, Internal Revenue Service, Progressives, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Can't we just agree on a system that is simple, fair and sufficient? Well, it's complicated. When you design a tax system, you are trying to hit six -- sometimes contradictory -- objectives at the same time.

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School Vouchers: No Clear Advantage in Academic Achievement

Jack Jennings | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Florida, Academic Achievement, Equity, Private Schools, Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Washington DC, Cleveland-Ohio, Center on Education Policy, Tuition Vouchers, Low-Income Students, School Vouchers, Education News
Jack Jennings

If vouchers don't lead to higher achievement for low-income students -- and test scores suggest they do not -- then that removes a major educational rationale for voucher programs.

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Obama Administration Keeps Eyes on the Prize

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Public Policy, Opportunity Ceiling, Promise Neighborhoods, Equity, Underserved Communities, Education Policy, Federal Government, Grants, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

What a wonderful investment in America! President Obama and his administration have seen the challenges facing young people in our country today who ...

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Preventing Predatory Lending by For-Profit Colleges

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: House Appropriations Committee, Leadership Conference Education Fund, Wade Henderson, For-Profit Colleges, Wall Street, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Education, House Budget Committee, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Rep Mike Honda, Subprime Mortgages, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Equity, Gainful Employment, Business News
Rep. Mike Honda

Today, many for-profit colleges have picked up where the subprime lenders left off. They are using the same promise of the American dream as bait to trap vulnerable students into underperforming schools and saddling them with a lifetime of debt.

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Russian Investment Opportunities: The Drivers and the Hidden Gems

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Russia, Saddam Hussein, Commodity, Equity, Brics, Gaddafi, Qaddafi, Agriculture, Imf, Iraq, China, Business, Tnk-Bp, Dmitry Medvedev, Investing, Libya, Risk, Nato, Wheat, G-8, Middle East, Foreign Reserves, Oil, Gdp, Un, Rts, Economy, Business News
Gemma Godfrey

It is clear to see why investors place so much emphasis on the oil price as a dictator of Russia's financial health. Supplying some 11.4% of the world's oil supply last year, Russia is the "biggest single source outside the OPEC cartel."

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America's Tomorrow: Equity In a Changing Nation

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Latino, Education, Equity, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Black, Immigration, Race, Transit, African Americans, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

For America to compete moving forward, we can't continue squandering the skills and potential of millions of young men and women.

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Hitting the "Opportunity Ceiling"

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Healthy Food, Public Policy, Mass Transit, Equity, Income Inequality, Budget, Food, Promise Neighborhoods, Race, Demographics, Paul Ryan, Transportation, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

By slashing programs like Pell Grants and YouthBuild, the Ryan budget would knock the legs out from under the next generation, denying them the skills and tools they need to be the leaders of tomorrow.

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Is a Free Education a Fundamental Right?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Equality, 14th Amendment, Education, Constitutional Amendment, Brown v. Board of Education, Equity, U.S. Constitution, Education Reform, Fairness, Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, Education News
Sam Chaltain

In today's America, when it comes to public education, have we allowed our five-digit zip codes to become the equivalent of a lottery ticket to a better future? Is this really who we wish to be?

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To Owe or Be Owned -- Depends on How You Tax It

Ruud de Mooij | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Tax Incentives, Debt Bias, Corporate Profits, Financial Crises, Equity, Investment, Tax Avoidance, Interest Deductiblity, Corporate Income Tax, Tax Deduction, Capital Gains, Dividends, Debt Finance, Leverage, Business News
Ruud de Mooij

The corporate tax code in the US creates a significant bias toward debt finance over equity. However we have come to realize that excessive debt is much more costly than we have always thought.

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'Good Schools Have the Arts' -- Isn't That What We Want for All Kids?

Richard Kessler | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Equity, Music Education, Dance Education, Music, Art Education, Arts Education, New York City Public Schools, Michael Hinojosa, Education Reform, Education News
Richard Kessler

Change will require the type of leadership that makes it known that schools without the arts cannot be good schools and will no longer be accepted.

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Federal Aid to the Schools -- Wasteful or Helpful?

Jack Jennings | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title IX, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Academic Achievement, Equity, Equality of Educational Opportunity, Mathematics, Naep, Latino Students, Idea, Federal Aid to the Schools--Wasteful or Helpful?, Students With Disabilities, Nclb, Esea, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, African American Students, Federal Aid to Education, Reading, Students of Color, Education News
Jack Jennings

The proportion of students who are the focus of federal aid is growing. Thus, we should reconfirm our commitment to bringing about greater equity in education.

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Venture Capitalists Aren't Investing In Black Entrepreneurs

Mike Green | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Investments, Black Innovation, Financing, Angel Investing, Equity, Black America, Angel Investors, Economy, Early Stage Companies, Ecosystems, Funding, Innovation Economy, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Angels, Invest, Investors, Entrepreneurial, Investing, Enterprise, High-Growth Companies, Unemployment, Angel Capital, Private, Venture, Venture Capital Investors, Startups, Innovative, Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Small Business, Small Business America, Business News
Mike Green

Investing in high-growth companies creates jobs while generating more wealth for investors. The formula has worked for the private venture capital investment community. Unfortunately, no such active community exists in black America.

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Fulfilling The Promise Of Equitable Education To Our Children

Rep. Chaka Fattah | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Equal Education, Equality, Bill of Rights, Education, Department of Education, Equity, Obama Education, Children, Educational Reform, Education Policy, Rates-of-Educational-Achievement-According-to-States, Public Education, Students, Civil Rights, Arne Duncan, Education News
Rep. Chaka Fattah

Providing a more equitable education for our children is not merely our moral imperative. This is an economic and national security necessity.

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Raising Government Revenue in Africa: A Road Out of Poverty

Mark Plant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vat, Domestic Tax Revenues, Regional Technical Assistance Center, Natural Resources, Trade Liberalization, Equity, Tax Administration, Technical Assistance, Health Spending, Tax Exemptions, Infrastructure, Education, Tax Policy, Value-Added Tax, Sub-Saharan Africa, Taxpayer Protection, Poverty Reduction, Topical Trust Funds, Afritacs, World News
Mark Plant

There are limits to how much a government can receive as grants from donors or borrow. So raising tax revenues is a necessary element for governments to spend on providing more of these essential services and, in turn, reduce poverty.

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