Tag: poverty
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Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry
Chocolate reached its peak popularity when it saw itself being celebrated locally, nationally and internationally for its taste; encouraging everyone living in North America and Western Europe to increase their consumption of chocolate; hovering over the already average consumption of 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate per year in America alone. Accompanying the sale of the…
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Recent scholarship on Weber’s ‘Time is Money’
Introduction The economic survival of the fittest is a product of the modern Western spirit of Capitalism, developed to ensure its own survival, and in turn has reshaped concepts of time, the purpose of life, community and social values, and cultural systems (Weber, 1905). The values inherent under the modern Capitalist system of the West,…
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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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Analyzing NGOs role in Women and Microfinance
Analyzing NGOs role in Women and Microfinance: A successful strategy historically designed to sustain a dependency between the rural poor and foreign donors Microfinance has become the most common approach to alleviating poverty in developing countries (Md Aslam and Chandran, 2016). The presence of microfinance in Bangladesh is the strongest in the world – dating…
April Marie Canillo 