Test-score data show that both low-income and racial-minority children score lower, on average, on states’ elementary-school accountability tests compared with higher-income children or white children. While different levels of scholastic achievement depend on a host of influences, such...

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions. Betrayed puts the poor themselves at center stage, and shows how their entrepreneurial energies are shackled by political and social discrimination....

Foreign aid, economic growth, poverty reduction, vulnerability to poverty, consumption poverty, asset poverty, Kilimanjaro, Ruvuma, Tanzania. - Entwicklungshilfe, Wirtschaftswachstum, Reduzierung von Armut, Vulnerabilität gegenüber Armut, Konsumarmut, Vermögensarmut, Klimandscharo, Tansania

Western preconceptions regarding African sexuality distorted early research on the social context of AIDS in Africa and limited the scope of preventive policies. Key works cited repeatedly in the social science and policy literature constructed a hypersexualized pan-African culture as the main...