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Additionally, the influential Brazilian business journal “Exame” has regularly nominated Porto Alegre as the Brazilian city with the best quality of life based on the following indicators: “literacy, enrollment in elementary and secondary education, quality of higher and postgraduate education, per capita...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The proposal for a participatory budget process destabilizes the standard conception of the political debate: Conservatives who advocate for more market versus progressives who advocate for more state. The participatory budget process implicitly suggests that both the market and the state have to be supervised by the broader public. Simply...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

This novel methodology is also innovative at a personal level: Participatory democracy in Porto Alegre is “expressive” in the sense that it gives each individual the opportunity to collectively articulate his or her own original contribution to society. Rather than imagine democracy simply as a...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Ultimately, thinking of girls’ education as the most effective investment option in the developing world helps justify the need for both types of change using basic economic theory. Just as any good stockbroker takes care to diversify each of her portfolios, American philanthropists as a group are wise...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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