Sublime

“When we have money, they don’t have fertilizer. When they have fertilizer, we don’t have money.”

There are even cheaper ways to avert diarrhea, such as adding chlorine to water. Other very inexpensive medical or public health technologies with proven effectiveness include ORS, getting children immunized, deworming drugs, exclusive breast-feeding until six months, and some routine antenatal procedures such as a tetanus shot for the expectant mo

It is not easy to escape from poverty, but a sense of possibility and a little bit of well-targeted help (a piece of information, a little nudge) can sometimes have surprisingly large effects. On the other hand, misplaced expectations, the lack of faith where it is needed, and seemingly minor hurdles can be devastating.

Principles of Economics, an introductory textbook authored by John B. Taylor and Akila Weerapana,

Dans le monde des homards, il existe une prime au vainqueur, exactement comme dans les sociétés humaines, où les 1 % de personnes les plus riches cumulent autant de richesses que les 50 % de plus pauvres11, et où les quatre-vingt-cinq personnes les plus aisées ont autant que les trois millions et demi d’indigents.

I wanted to try to write a book about poverty that didn’t focus exclusively on poor people or poor places. Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence an