The course of history has lead us into this situation. If we want to solve these problems, we have to change this system itself. We live in a globalized world. To solve our global problems we have to work together no matter where we are from.
In his interview with Evan Davis on BBC’s Newsnight, Russell Brand makes a few points about the urgent need for systematic change. Check out the entire interview here.
On October 10, 12 countries across the world stepped out to give a message to Bank that the World wanted to it to trash its rankings. The message reached over a million people on social media and was covered by news media online as well.
We know that many people in the UK misunderstand poverty and development: there’s reams of evidence on that. But there are interesting lessons to be had when we look at what it is that they actually think. For example: the idea that Oxfam run orphanages, something that surfaced when Oxfam...
As United Nations officials struggle to define the development priorities of the next 15 years, the UN Millennium Campaign, the World Bank, and many other organs of the development industry tell us that we are nearing the end of poverty.
Coalgate[1] was stupefying enough for me to watch Kala Pathar – the Yash Chopra classic about coal miners again. In the film a catharsis seeking Amitabh Bachchan, tells Rakhee, the resident mining town doctor, “Pain is my destiny and I can’t avoid it.”
