Thom Brooks (Newcastle): Rethinking Remedial Responsibilities. Thomas Pogge on a world without the poor, not without poverty: Half a million die every year from malnutrition, yet the fate of the world is decided without giving the poor a voice and the result is enduring poverty — the affluent need to face up to the consequences of our actions. Charles Kenny on how the world can buy its way out of poverty for just $100 billion. Partners in Help: Paul Farmer on assisting the poor over the long term. Who represents the poor? Pranab Bardhan on the limits of the NGO movement in global development. Rich country, poor country: The economic divide continues to expand. Inequality and its discontents: Branko Milanovic on why so many feel left behind. Dani Rodrik (Harvard): The Future of Convergence. Across the world, slums are home to a billion people — the rich elite want the shanty towns cleared, but residents are surprisingly determined not to leave. Parks and Poverty: Do protected areas keep people poor? A world without borders makes economic sense: Allowing workers to change location significantly enriches the world economy, so why do we erect barriers to human mobility? Geojunk takes a look at products of forced labor by country. A review of Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed through Natural Resource Exploitation by Edward B. Barbier. The New Green Revolution: Olivier De Schutter and Gaetan Vanloqueren on how twenty-first-century science can feed the world. With the right programs, we can produce enough food for everyone — indeed, by taking the right actions now, we can eradicate starvation. Famine is a crime: Civilization has defeated mass starvation, so why are so many Somalis dying of hunger? A review of Three Famines: Starvation and Politics by Thomas Keneally.
