The Nation has an interesting post up recapping an antipoverty conference in Philadelphia.

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Google's antipoverty work centers on spreading information access, from Internet connections to legal rights.

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Microlending--disbursing working capital in tiny doses to small businesses and sole proprietors--is now all the rage at the World Bank and other antipoverty agencies.

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Microlending--disbursing working capital in tiny doses to small businesses and solo proprietors--is now all the rage at the World Bank and other antipoverty agencies.

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That brings me to the last point: as I mentioned earlier this week, Houghton expressed the widely held view among antipoverty activists that growth is somehow antithetical to their aims.

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This is the greatest antipoverty achievement in world history.

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Read Tomas Kellner's profile of him on page 204 and ask yourself if Johnson isn't doing more to help the less prosperous citizens of that city than a roomful of antipoverty experts.

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