Tag: poor
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The business of altruism
Can billionaires make the world a better place? The top 500 richest people in the world saw their wealth grow to a trillion dollars by 2017 And in 2018, the 26 richest billionaires held a net worth of more than half the world’s poorest population (3.8 billion people). The criticism of modern development is that…
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The commodification of body parts as an exploitative practice that oppresses the poor
Introduction The corporate preying on body parts, and the lucrative market that has unfolded under its commodification, created a multi-billion-dollar trade industry that threatens the lives, social relationships and economic standings of those especially ill-equipped to bear them (Sharp 2006). This paper investigates the impact of transplant tourism on the most desperate individuals of poorer countries, by looking into…
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Reflection: The relationship between economic growth and the health of societies
The idea of economic growth as central to development or the precursor for health, is fundamentally flawed. For example, globalization and the expansion of technology, especially where there are wage inequalities between different industries, has led to increases of income inequality (Birn et al. 2017). Rather than defaulting to mainstream approaches of disease control and…
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Analytical Review: Give A Man A Fish by James Ferguson
Analytical Review: Give A Man A Fish by James Ferguson Ferguson proposes the radical suggestion that the solution to the deprivation in southern Africa is the organization of a society that differs from contemporary liberal democratic thinking about politics and social provisioning (Ferguson 2015). Despite the many different interpretations, Ferguson agrees most with the concept…
April Marie Canillo 