#217 Planet Money: The Art Of Living At The Poverty Line
On today's Planet Money, we meet a single mother who makes $16,000 a year -- and who managed to...
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#191 Planet Money: Good News From Haiti
First, we hear from Yvrose Jean Baptiste, the Haitian businesswoman left destitute by the...
#188 Planet Money: Tomatoes, Tradition And The Global Economy
Alex Blumberg reports from Jamaica, where low-tech tomato farmers struggle to compete.
#160 Planet Money: In Haiti, A Prime Minister's Lament
Adam Davidson and Chana Joffe-Walt, who've been reporting in Haiti, talk to Prime Minister Jean...
#152 Planet Money: Small Business, Big Debts In Haiti
We meet Yvrose Jean Baptiste, a small-time Haitian wholesaler. Yvrose has a unique business...
#137 Planet Money: When Science And Corruption Meet
We hear and read stories of corruption every day, but finding cold hard data on the subject is so...
Twenty of the world's industrialized and emerging economies are gathering in Washington this...
Global Ethics Corner: South Africa: The Impossible Dream?
It's been about 20 years since South Africa emerged from apartheid, but a recent series of...
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Confronting Youth Unemployment
With an unemployment rate three times higher than that of adults, there are 75 million youth...
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Global Ethics Corner: Is the World Bank Outdated?
With the election of another American to head the World Bank, some are questioning the...
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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Is oil a curse? According to Michael Ross, it's not a coincidence that major oil-producing...
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096: The Mormon Worker Part 2 -- William VanWagenen
In October 2007 a new LDS-themed periodical was launched entitled"The Mormon Worker." This...
095: The Mormon Worker Part 1 -- William VanWagenen
In October 2007 a new LDS-themed periodical was launched entitled"The Mormon Worker." This...
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A Win-Win: Communications Technology and Global Health
David Aylward specializes in a new sector called mobile health, which uses cell phone and other...
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Global Ethics Corner: The Challenge of Population Growth
World population may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100. Are population issues individual choices...
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Ethics in Business: Interview with Felipe Botero, VP, MetLife
Felipe Botero is a VP at MetLife Insurance. Day-to-day, he develops insurance for retiring...
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Public Ethics Radio: Anne Phillips on Ownership and the Body
Is the human body a piece of property? We object to the sale of whole human beings, but what...
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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
What, asks Oxford economist Paul Collier, are realistic and sustainable solutions to correcting...
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Following the UNDP model, this report uses a Human Development Index that provides a single...
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Devin Stewart Interviews Seth Kaplan on Fixing Fragile States
Seth Kaplan gives an in-depth look at how weak states can promote and leverage social cohesion to...
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