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...Many of the street-side booksellers are migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India's poorest states, and are almost illiterate in English. Yet they're surprisingly sophisticated where it counts. They master enough English to memorize a list of significant authors and identify them by their book covers; they're also highly attuned to the tastes of the Indian reading public. Diwakar, a 19-year-old book-hawker, rattles off the names of his top sellers with ease: "Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham" and, of course, "Harry Potter." They also know that pirated editions...
...Globalization” per se was not the problem; rather it was a question of how globalization is being pursued, a question of who is benefiting and who is getting screwed. The demonstrators force us to ask whether the interests of the world’s poorest and most oppressed have been left unheeded. For example, although international trade has the potential to lift millions in the developing world out of poverty, the manner in which such trade is currently structured appears to have little to do with this noble goal...
...agricultural exports. In a truly perverse turn of events, U.S. subsidies turned what should have been a Mexican comparative advantage in agriculture into a Mexican dependency on U.S. exports. Simply put, it’s hypocritical of the U.S. and the E.U. to force the world’s poorest countries to open their markets even as they themselves prove chronically unwilling to cut back their own subsidies...
...America’s inner cities, there are two basic types of schools: reform-oriented learning institutions that develop progressive teaching methods, and pits where our educational system has dumped our poorest and most troubled children...
NetImpact, a California-based health-care company, is applying technology to improve health-care delivery and disease control in Mali, one of the poorest nations in Africa. Earlier this year OnQ Africa B.V., a for-profit company in the Netherlands that invests private and public money in subSaharan health, telecom and education, awarded NetImpact a $125 million contract to install MDS 200, a portable disease-detection device, and NetCare 7.0, a software package that stores and analyzes medical data. MDS 200, which can run on battery or solar power in areas without electricity, instantly screens for viruses like...