As a result, approaching workers about unpleasant subjects such as insubordination, poor performance or plain bad behavior can be difficult.
As many international micro finance institutions have demonstrated (although not yet proven nationally), lending to poor people can be a sustainable strategy as these nontraditional institutions get repaid and repay investors. (Note: Microfinance institutions are a subset of CDFIs in the United States).
Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.
Once Kosovo is at peace, he argues, the West must realise that poor Balkan countries, such as Macedonia, can no longer be ignored.
Maybe the public-sector premium arises from an incentive problem and hence higher public-sector pay can be used as an indicator of poor quality in this sector.
Moreover, some of the negative health effects of a poor diet--such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol--can be handled with drugs.
As the gap between rich and poor grows larger, we can no longer afford to be mesmerized by charismatic anecdotes.
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But can the education of a child in a poor country be seen as a worthwhile investment for a citizen of a rich country?
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In the rich countries, the air that we breathe and the water we drink or swim in is cleaner now than in 1900 or 1950, and it is clear that, given the will, it can be made cleaner in poor (and now increasingly more polluted) countries as well.
And we should reduce poverty among elderly women, who are nearly twice as likely to be poor as other seniors -- and we should eliminate the limits on what seniors on Social Security can earn.
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