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...think tank. Titled "A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education," it lays out an expansive vision for leveling the playing field for low-income kids, one that looks toward new policies on child health and support for parents and communities. The document states that much of the achievement gap between rich and poor "is rooted in what occurs outside of formal schooling," and therefore calls on policymakers to "rethink their assumptions" about what it will take to close that gap. Neuman says that money she's seen wasted on current programs, including much of the massive Title 1 spending should...
...Globalization might be creating rich countries with poor people," economist Joseph Stiglitz has noted. That is apparent in South Africa, whose postapartheid government adopted an open-market economy that drew cheers from Wall Street and the international banking community and helped achieve an impressive, steady annual economic growth rate of 4-5%. But that growth has done little to reverse inequality or dangerously high levels of unemployment. In November last year, the South African Institute of Race Relations estimated 4.2 million South Africans were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996, two years after...
...migrate, legally and illegally, from poor countries, either to the industrialized world or to more prosperous developing countries such as South Africa. But the poor in the developing world are determined not to diminish the little they have by sharing it with foreign migrants and, like many in the rich world, are erecting barriers to outsiders settling in their midst...
...modern South Korea is a democracy, and a fractious one at that. The country is riven by divisions between rich and poor, old and young, left and right. The society has spawned myriad NGOs, civic movements and ideologically committed political parties that contest virtually every government decision as if the fate of the nation were at stake. No one in power gets a free pass these days: in April, alpha tycoon Lee Kun Hee, chairman of Samsung Group, the country's top conglomerate, was forced to resign after being indicted for tax evasion and breach of fiduciary duty. Under...
...agricultural production and economics gains. Poor families, like Bing's, are growing fastest. The country's poorest residents have an average of six children. The richest, meanwhile, have two. And it's not simply a matter of choice. Asked how many children they'd like to have, Philippine women, rich and poor, say they'd like two. Bing's neighbor, Sheryl, was one of those women, but, at 25, she's already had five. Three survived infancy. "What we earn here is not enough for children," she says...