Class Meeting Tmes

MWF from 2:00 to 2:50 p.m. in Ruebush 113

Friday, May 20, 2011

World Poverty: What to Do?

In his May 18, 2011, New York Times editorial "Getting Smart on Aid," Nicholas D. Kristoff argues that what peoples around the world need is much more important than what we want to donate. Seem obvious? Kristoff says not so much. Foreign aid for decades has been dominated by what givers want to give, but this has not always been what receivers needed or wanted. Why the disconnect? Kristoff's examples--that deworming is a more basic need than new school buildings and that relationship education proves more effective than abstinence training--require us to rethink our ideas about what actually constitutes "help." After reading Kirstoff's editorial, how do you suppose poverty-stricken families around the globe might be changed by an aid attitude change?

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