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...days. So here you have a disaster that was in part a disaster created by this very ideology. And then you have billions of dollars liberated in the name of the victims of this tragedy and suddenly there's a possibility for parents and teachers - for some of the poorest people in America who had been so betrayed by their government - to build the system they've always wanted, to build the housing projects that they've always wanted, and to heal from this shock by being a participant in the reconstruction. Instead of that, the trauma was actively exploited...
...opening of agricultural markets, with the help of bodies like the WTO and the World Bank, have wrested control of the land and what grows on it from the hands of farmers and have given it to corporations and bureaucrats. Supermarket procurement desks, he writes, "can fire the poorest farm workers in South Africa, flip the fates of coffee growers in Guatemala or tweak the output of paddy terraces in Thailand." And yet, at the end of every day, mountains of food waste end up in the supermarket dumpsters and kitchen bins of the developed world while millions starve...
...Carter Center do? And how is it related to Habitat for Humanity? Ruth Bennett, Sterling Heights, Mich. The Carter Center is completely separate. We put in 51 weeks a year on the center and one week on Habitat. The center is designed to meet the needs of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. We deal with neglected diseases. We mediate disputes. The thing that gets the most publicity is Habitat. Last year we built 100 homes in India in just four days because Brad Pitt showed up and we were inundated with unanticipated volunteers...
...early trip to the ballot box ahead of the August wildfires, seeking a fresh mandate for crucial social and economic changes. With 20 percent of the nation's households living below the poverty level, or less than $16,000 a year, Greeks ranks among the European Union's poorest members...
...failed state costs its neighbors an average of $64 billion in military spending and lost trade, and can spread dysfunction far beyond its borders (for a prime example of the latter, see Afghanistan). These arguments impel Collier to a sobering conclusion: without radical international intervention, the world's poorest states are likely to remain trapped in a cycle of civil war and near-zero economic growth for decades...