http://povertycure.org/blog/ en mbrandenburg@acton.org Copyright 2013 2013-05-14T04:04:36+00:00 Matthea Brandenburg http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/free-primary-education-is-a-fundamental-good.-isnt-it/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/free-primary-education-is-a-fundamental-good.-isnt-it/#When:04:04:36Z Private schools are for the privileged and those willing to pay high costs for education; everyone else attends public school or seeks alternate options: this is the accepted wisdom. In the United States, the vast majority of students at the primary and secondary level attend public school, funded by the government. When considering education in the developing world, we may hold fast to this thinking, believing that for those in severely impoverished areas, private education is an unrealistic and scarce option, leaving the poor with public school or no education at all. 2013-05-14T04:04:36+00:00 Mark Weber http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/buy-yourself-a-cup-of-tea-a-collapse-in-culture/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/buy-yourself-a-cup-of-tea-a-collapse-in-culture/#When:12:23:17Z 377 are dead and thousands are suffering. How many more tragedies will Bangladesh endure before corporate and political corruption is addressed? 2013-04-30T12:23:17+00:00 Mark Weber http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/what-are-practitioners-saying-about-the-povertycure-dvd-series/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/what-are-practitioners-saying-about-the-povertycure-dvd-series/#When:18:48:55Z Over the past three years, we have conducted over 150 interviews with entrepreneurs, economists, political and religious leaders, missionaries, NGO workers, and everyday people around the world. Our purpose now is to serve practitioners by sharing the research, data, stories, and insights we have collected. Here is some feedback from a number of prominent practitioners. 2013-04-18T18:48:55+00:00 Mark Weber http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/the-fruits-the-roots-and-the-soil/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/the-fruits-the-roots-and-the-soil/#When:18:05:46Z We poverty junkies spend a lot of time examining the fruits and the roots. But what of the soil? 2013-04-11T18:05:46+00:00 Michael Matheson Miller http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/pope-francis-the-place-for-christ-in-the-streets/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/pope-francis-the-place-for-christ-in-the-streets/#When:18:31:15Z Here's a piece I wrote at The American Spectator called Street Smarts on Pope Francis and the need to to engage with the poor not as objects of state action, but as the protagonists of their own development. 2013-03-18T18:31:15+00:00 Mark Weber http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/beyond-microfinance-addressing-the-missing-middle/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/beyond-microfinance-addressing-the-missing-middle/#When:15:59:07Z Not everybody is an entrepreneur. Not everybody needs to go start a business. We don’t want a world where it’s just a bunch of subsistence entrepreneurs no more than we want a world where it’s just a bunch of subsistence farmers. We have to think about the next step. 2013-03-18T15:59:07+00:00 Matthea Brandenburg http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/beyond-aid-the-flood-of-rice-in-haiti/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/beyond-aid-the-flood-of-rice-in-haiti/#When:14:30:39Z “We don't just want the money to come to Haiti. Stop sending money. Let's fix it. Let's fix it,” declared Republic of Haiti President Michel Martelly three years after the 2010 earthquake. Martelly was referring to foreign aid, $9 billion of which has been pledged to the country since the disaster. But financial aid has of course not been the only item sent to Haiti; the country has experienced a vast influx of goods, including clothing, shoes, food, and in particular, rice. Haiti imports approximately 80% of its rice, making it the country’s most significant food import. 2013-03-14T14:30:39+00:00 Jonathan Witt http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/the-gospel-and-the-church-turning-criminals-into-co-creators/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/the-gospel-and-the-church-turning-criminals-into-co-creators/#When:22:11:48Z I'm just back from the republic of Texas and Acton's Toward a Free and Virtuous Society conference. One of my fellow lecturers was Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Ben Phillips. In between sessions, he showed me a recent Houston television news piece on SWBTS's Darrington prison extension, where Phillips and other Southwestern profs are bringing prisoners to Christ, with a plan to send graduates of the program to other Texas prisons. 2013-03-06T22:11:48+00:00 Mark Weber http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/faq-where-does-povertycure-stand-on-population-control/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/faq-where-does-povertycure-stand-on-population-control/#When:17:29:03Z PovertyCure's Mark Weber responds to a FAQ submission regarding population control: "At PovertyCure, we firmly believe that human beings are our most precious resource and the decisions of the family should be free of foreign influence." 2013-03-05T17:29:03+00:00 Matthea Brandenburg http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/iea-introduces-important-dialogue-to-the-poverty-debate/ http://www.povertycure.org/media/blog/iea-introduces-important-dialogue-to-the-poverty-debate/#When:20:09:15Z On February 28th PovertyCure partner, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), will host a panel discussion titled, “Beyond Benefits − a new approach to poverty.” The event will entertain dialogue on UK governments’ impact on poverty alleviation and the efficacy of restructuring state policies to better serve the poor, and will launch the final publication from the IEA’s Poverty Project, Redefining the Poverty Debate –Why a War on Markets is no Substitute for a War on Poverty. 2013-02-22T20:09:15+00:00