share Could Preschool Answer the Current US Budget Woes? You might want to start putting your days in nursery school on your resume. A recent study found that children in the U.S. with access to preschool almost always outperformed their peers — even decades after the class adjourned, says NPR's Planet Money. Read more »
share The Congo's 'River of Life' The River has seen everything: poverty, political chaos, violence. It has been mythicized in great stories of expeditions (see Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) and exploited by outsiders. Read more »
share Skilled Migrants Reap Benefits of Working Abroad “Brain drain” sounds like a pretty scary thing, right? It’s the term often used to describe what happens to developing countries when their best and brightest citizens leave to find work abroad. But does it always have to be a bad thing? Read more »
share Wordplay Admittedly this clever video has no obvious connection to economics. But it's happy and worth sharing. Read more »
share Earthquake Shocks Haitian Rice Market In Haiti, rice is king. It’s consumed at every meal and forms an important source of income for many people — wholesalers, street vendors, and farmers. But the January earthquake has left the rice market in shambles. Read more »
share Can India's Poor Manufacture Prosperity? Imagine the entire population of the United States — just over 300 million people — living in ramshackle homes, struggling to feed and clothe their families. That's about how many Indians are impoverished. Read more »
share Health as a Human Right Paul Farmer is a tireless campaigner against the world's "stupid deaths." His hands-in-the-dirt work on behalf of diseases that afflict the poorest of the poor in places like Haiti and Rwanda was chronicled in the 2003 NYT bestseller, Mountains Beyond Mountains. Read more »
