InsideWork’s Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton’s, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.
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Is it strategic to serve the poor?
Dan Wooldridge suggests that contrary to conventional strategic wisdom to continually go up the value chain, strategies need to be developed that serves the poor.
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Economic Possibilities for Our Time
A challenging vision for how world poverty can be ended in the next twenty years.
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Are the poor really wicked and lazy?
Dan Wooldridge responds to Robert Kiyosaki’s assertion that the poor are wicked and lazy. Kiyosaki is author of best selling Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
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From Now On It's All Business
As of Spring 2006, 72 percent of home internet users had broadband connections. With a peak market around 85 percent (the rest say they don’t want or can’t afford broadband), we’re pretty much there. Now what can we do with it?
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Pay Ratios Barely Scratch the Surface
MSNBC reports that executive pay in the United States is, on average, 430 times greater than the wages of average workers. Is a 430:1 ratio too high? At InsideWork, we think there may be an even bigger question.
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What people call "Christianity" first spread in a world organized by the economy of the "oikos." That sentence is redundant since "oikos" is the root word from which we get "economics." It may also be at the root of
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In an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Pultizer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) reminds us that the biblical worldview we’re always talking about at InsideWork is shaped by the long view of the Bible.
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Speculating on Real Estate in New Orleans
If housing and commercial real estate are any indicators, New Orleans will be back — and profoundly changed.
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