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Genius: a Talk With Edwidge Danticat

Martha St Jean | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Florida, Author, Third World, Writer, Edwidge Danticat, Haitians, Malcolm Gladwell, Grid, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Third World Countries, MacArthur Genius Award, Edwidge-Dandicat-Memoir, Haitian-American, Aids, World News
Martha St Jean

"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."

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Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development

William Easterly | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Aid, Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Third World Countries, Latin America, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mosquitoes, World News
William Easterly

Sachs is an inspirational and hard-working intellectual, just one whose ideas on Africa happen to be sometimes totally wrong, and other times only seriously wrong.

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G-20 Global Response: 'Developing World Needs Its Own Stimulus'

Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, London, Global Financial Crisis, Third World Countries, G20 Summit, United Kingdom, President Barack Obama, Developing Countries Poverty, European Union, g20 Leaders, London-United Kingdom, World News

As the G-20 Summit in London wraps up today, bloggers and citizen journalists from around the world are covering the outcomes, ideas and policies pres...

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Brothel Watch

Scott Diel | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Soviet, Estonia, Brothel, Third World Countries, Prostitution, Women's Rights, Brothels, Tallinn, World News
Scott Diel

Sure, the girls make too much noise, and maybe they do drive down the property value. But if the prostitutes were driven out, they might be replaced with worse. Like a family with teenagers.

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World Bank: the Incredible Shrinking Economy

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Third World Countries, Financial Crisis, Robert Zoellick, Global Economy, World Bank, Economy, World News
Jacob Heilbrunn

More and more, the danger of a rerun of the 1930s, in which extremist movements profit from financial depression, looms as a real prospect.

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Ford Foundation, Peter Geithner, Nobel, Ann Dunham Soetero, Timothy Geithner, Hillary Clinton, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, People's Banks, India, Thailand, Poverty, Zimbabwe, Third World, Third World Countries, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary Nominee, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Global Poverty, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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The Hypocrisy of the West

Ben Cohen | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Poverty, Global Economy, Third World, Brazil, World Bank, Economic Crisis, Capitalism, Nicaragua, Global Economic Crisis, Third World Countries, Economic Stimulus Package, Zimbabwe Hyperinflation, Imf, Global Financial Crisis, World News
Ben Cohen

The Third World exists in a precarious state of neo colonial dependency and cannot follow our path out of economic disaster because we insist they don't.

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Larry Mellon's Inspiring Mid-Life Crisis

Diana Odasso | Posted 01.28.2009 | World

Read More: Health, Haiti, The Giving Life, Charitable Gifts, Poverty, Charity, World, Third World, Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Midlife Crisis, Tuberculosis, Infant Malnutrition, Mid-Life Crisis, Third World Countries, HIV/AIDS, Charitable Organizations, Starvation, Aids, Port-Au-Prince, World News
Diana Odasso

As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.

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Bailing Out a Leaky Boat

Judith Blau | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Third World Countries, Global Economy, Economy, Ukraine, Business News
Judith Blau

As the sub-prime mortgage crisis spread to all financial sectors of the US and quickly to the rest of the world, the media heaped praise on governments for bailing out financial institutions.

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A Triangle of Human Suffering

Mia Farrow | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Russia, Car Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Chad, United Nations, Central African Republic, Darfur, Third World Countries, Lord's Resistance Army, Car, Genocide, Africa, Lra, China, Politics News
Mia Farrow

As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.

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My Talk with Fareed Zakaria: Obama Must Face A Post-American World

Nathan Gardels | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fareed Zakaria, Barack Obama, Third World Countries, India, Global Politics, The Post American World, The Developing World, Emerging Powers, China, Politics News
Nathan Gardels

I talked with Zakaria about what Obama faces as president: he will have to deal with China, India, and the developing world as they aspire to catch up with America.

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