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...part of a three-year trial (2005 to 2008). A similar project in the mountainous Makwanpur region of Nepal, where health facilities can easily be a six-hour walk away, required the Institute to organize local women into groups. In east India, it rallied an existing structure of "self-help groups," a national network of rural microfinance intermediaries typically composed of 10 to 15 women who contribute small savings to a common fund until they have enough to begin lending. As part of the trial, the groups were asked to replace talk of business with babies, and open meetings...
...Jesuit Guide. It helpfully unpacks core precepts like "finding God in all things." But at heart it is self-help book based on the "spiritual exercises" of Jesuit founder St. Ignatius Loyola and other Jesuit practices for a non-Jesuit, possibly non-Catholic, maybe even non-believing audience. This makes it unusual. Unlike Buddhists or New Agers, notes religion author and book critic Jana Riess, Christian writers may evangelize others, but save their how-tos for members of their own flock. Not Martin. His guide suggests "six paths" that might appeal to different kinds of readers, including "the path...
Take a cue from the self-help group Moderation Management (MM), which advises problem drinkers to abstain completely for a month before attempting moderate drinking. If you can't achieve a month of abstinence, the thinking goes, successful moderation is unlikely...
Chris Farrell, the economics editor for public radio's Marketplace Money, is the most optimistic of the lot. "Profligacy is out. Frugality is in," he declares in his inspirational self-help book, The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better. Farrell is so enthusiastic in his mission to promote a more sensible lifestyle that he makes the reader want to burn a credit card. Save more, pay off your debts and borrow less, and you can join Farrell's brigade...
...Camara hardly inspired much hope. In a documentary on news network France24, the 35-year-old soldier was keen to show off his bedside literature: a copy of the self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking. The hallway of his barracks is hung with a clumsy oil painting of him riding a horse, eyes fixed on the horizon like some latter-day Napoléon. Many in Guinea maintain that Camara lost control over the army within months of seizing power in a Christmas coup after the death of President Lansana Conte. He himself admitted as much after...