Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure.

The problem is that the new rhetoric of self-sufficiency coincides with a growing distrust of markets and trade.

“The great irony of being poor is that you are too poor to save, but too poor not to save.” – What we need is a savings revolution.

Development is sweeping over the South Indian countryside like a wave. Too often, it’s the environment — the trees and the water and the air — that suffers.

The poorest of the poor – women and children – try to fill their bellies with mud-pies formerly used as an antacid and a source of calcium…

If India’s well-to-do ran the world, the film that dominated the Academy Awards this week might simply have been called “Millionaire.”

What the world’s most impoverished people need isn’t fewer sweatshops, but more of them.

By Pete Harrison (Reuters)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Biofuels are responsible for 30 percent of the increase in global food prices, pushing 30 million people worldwide into poverty, the aid agency Oxfam said in a report Wednesday.

By Amelia Gentleman (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008
In a wealthy area of New Delhi , the flower sellers struggle to eat

By David Applefield (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2008
It isn’t until you watch a hungry child eat at your kitchen table that the reality of world hunger begins to strike home.
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