When you get back, read "The End of...

When you get back, read "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs. Pretty eye opening stuff (although, your eyes are probably pretty open at this point) . The rich world could completely end extreme world poverty very quickly, if we just bothered to care.

Add to your myths the myth that we give a large amount of foreign aid, but it is squandered due to corruption. The truth is the amount of foreign we supply to places like Africa is trivially small, is much less than we used to provide as a percentage of national income and largely goes to service debt.

http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/

Hurry home.

written by Chris Schaffner on February 22, 2007

Heading South?