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...poorest country has the highest [drug] prices. This is nuts, this makes no sense, this is crazy,” he said. “We’re living in a time when we have lots of new and effective technologies, but we don’t have an equity strategy for introducing them where they’re needed most. If you don’t…remediate inequality, in the future the situation’s going to get worse...
Sachs’ findings emphasized the role of wealthy nations in increasing aid to the poorest of nations...
...with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick's were decorated with multicolored and multilingual posters: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY UNLESS ORDAINED IN BOSTON and CHUNG CON LUON O BEN CHA (Vietnamese...
Such ignorance is shocking given the dire economic situation of billions of people around the world. On Jan. 18, according to the London Guardian, a senior World Bank economist announced the world’s wealthiest 50 million people earn as much money as the poorest 2.7 billion. In other words, the richest 1 percent of the human population makes as much money as the poorest 57 percent...
...shall hallow the fiftieth year ... and ye shall return every man unto his possessions"), Jubilee 2000's aim was to get the U.S. and other wealthy nations, as well as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to erase the public debt of 52 of the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa. By wiping $350 billion from their books, these countries would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down the principal on loans floated by corrupt and sometimes long-gone governments. "We have squeezed these countries to the point...