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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 47–52.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Chickens: Feeding Africa’s Poor
G. Pascal Zachary
The chicken peddler in Accra’s central mar in cities—eat a wider range of foods than
ket looked astonished as my wife repeated ever before. Shiploads of Thai rice stream
that the price for his live broiler was too into Ghana’s Tema port...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 57–62.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Barbara Crossette Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 REPORTAGE
Barbara Crossette, a writer on international affairs, was a chief New York Times correspondent in A sia and a t the
United Nations.
Hurting the Worlds Poor in Morality’s Name...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Angelika Albaladejo A "witch hunt against poor women": Across the Americas, abortion laws are harming health and securityRestrictive reproductive policies in El Salvador, Colombia, the U.S., and elsewhere are pushing women toward unsafe procedures. Journalist Angelika Albaladejo argues...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 59–64.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Ross P. Buckley Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Ross P. Buckley is executive director of the Tim Fischer Center for Global Trade and Finance, Bond University,
Queensland, Australia.
The Rich Borrow and the Poor Repay
The Fatal Flaw in International...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Across the world, property prices in the inner city are spiking, forcing poor and middle-class residents out of their communities. World Policy Journal asked a panel of four experts how governments can work with the private sector to ensure that cities maintain genuinely affordable housing...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Khadija Sharife World Policy Institute fellow Khadija Sharife investigates the tax avoidance strategies of one of the world’s biggest lottery corporations. While the company, GTech (now known as IGT), profits off the poor, it has shielded hundreds of millions in revenue from the tax man...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jill Filipovic India’s ban on sex-selective abortions in 1994 was designed to increase gender equality and send the message that girls and women are valued in society. But the law has also come at a cost, according to Jill Filipovic . Many poor women now find that they can’t access second-trimester...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 100–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... case loads, shoddy police work, and poor communication. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 justice judiciary South Africa policing law ARBORESCE ARBORESCE In 1983, Betty Ketani left South Africa’s Eastern Cape in search of work in Johannesburg. She soon found a job...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 110.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Christopher Shay Throughout history, politicians have wanted to demolish the “noisy, dirty, and confusing” poor neighborhoods of the inner city. World Policy Journal editor Christopher Shay argues that leaders shouldn’t be so disdainful of these areas. Diverse, complex communities can better resist...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., the notion that poverty, the religious beliefs and social
poverty can be ended is new and rather odd. norms that had ensured a commitment to
“The poor ye have always with you,” noted the poor were melting into air. In the capi
the Bible, and until quite recently such pes talist world, in other words...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 51–66.
Published: 01 September 2004
... gap between rich and poor— be it is that the most powerful force for the re
tween the 16 percent of the world’s people duction of poverty is sustained and robust
who live in the most affluent countries and economic growth. The evidence shows that
control 81 percent of total global income...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to political and economic forces. The embrace of responsible fathers by Latin American policymakers may have less to do with protecting the interests of poor mothers and children than with advancing the political agendas of neoliberal states. The origins of responsible paternity lie in the region’s...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 35–40.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... If you’re willing to have a capitalist system, then you’re willing to have bubbles. But you’ve gone way beyond bubbles. What you’ve done is, first, get that property you decided to give the poor and give them titles to it. But to get them financed you created mortgages through a Mortgage Electronic...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 115–121.
Published: 01 June 2017
... fundamental question haunts the process: When nearly all of the villages are poor, how can you fairly or effectively allocate limited funds? There are also personal political concerns that influence the process. Officials, whose careers are being monitored for success or failure, are incentivized...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 91–100.
Published: 01 March 2012
...-1980s, who asked me, “How much can we Nicaraguans change if we are the same people?” At the time, she seemed cynical, but 30 years later, it’s clear that the staggering weight of history, custom, and culture has taken its toll. Indeed, in too many of the truly poor countries of the world, broad-based...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 35–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that dancehall remains the music of the “underprivileged” as its practitioners tend to speak on behalf of the poor and oppressed—though not always for purposes of political resistance. There are clearly some exceptions, but for the most part, dancehall musicians are quite comfortable giving the people what...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 70–80.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and Swaziland. For most African countries, improving access to education poses classic development challenges—lack of infrastructure or resources, remoteness, and poor administration. But South Africa suffers from a unique problem: a well-developed education bureaucracy that was designed to fail black South...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 102–110.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of poor and distant zones,” since the program did not demand from its foreign professionals proficiency in Portuguese or a Brazilian medical certificate. To the Federal Council of Medicine, the program itself represents an “irresponsible” political maneuver focusing only on next year’s election. Most...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 25–35.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Colombia has led to a resurgence of cultiva
Drug cartels have also been able to tion in Bolivia and Peru.
raise private armies and contest the state’s Even for poor peasant producers, who
monopoly of coercive force in parts of sever receive only a small fraction of the profits,
al countries...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2004
... have used their bully pulpits to criti
rich countries resisting poor countries’ de cize unfair trade policies and their impact
mands for major changes. In fact, the latest on Africa’s long-term development. “The
World Trade Organization (w t o ) negotia rich countries have a choice,” says...
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