E c o n o m i c & S o c i a l DESA Working Paper No. 80 ST/ESA/2009/DWP/80 August 2009 A f f a i r s The Bottom of the Pyramid Strategy for Reducing Poverty: A Failed Promise Aneel Karnani Abstract The movement emphasizing free markets to reduce poverty has found strong expression in the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ approach in recent years. It views the poor as “resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers”. This romanticized view of the poor harms the poor in
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AAfter The Fact: The View From the Bottom Rail Chris Bean Bl: A 5/29/12 Mr. Penza Summary of Chapter: With the sound of cannons and gunshots firing in the air‚ slaves in the south knew that freedom was coming to a nation of four million slaves. Union soldiers would be portrayed as bad foreigners from their masters‚ with‚ “ long horns on their heads‚ and tushes in their mouths‚ and eyes sticking out like a cow.” (Page 171) Some slaves were overjoyed with rumors of emancipation and leaving their plantations
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In the book‚ “The Bottom Billion”‚ Paul Collier points out global poverty for 80 percent of the world‚ is falling away rapidly. Yet in spite of the worlds astonishing rate to do away with poverty‚ there is still a small percentage‚ especially places in Africa and the Middle East where the economy is the same and is not improving‚ and the population just seems to continue to grow. Collier is viewed as a specialist in the field of financial matters and the issues of common war particularly in Africa
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As Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom indicates‚ an issue such as classism is not merely an ideology‚ but a way that differentiates the classes on a social and economic scale. Classism is reflected in the play where the people on the top feel they are naturally superior to those on the bottom‚ especially displayed through the set-up of the recording studio. Irvin and Sturdyvant are at the top of the economic scale and are characterized as the leaders of those below them. They feel that because they are of
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Nick Bottom. Puck‚ or Robin Goodfellow‚ is established in the play as the jester to the King of Fairies‚ Oberon. He first appears in Act 2‚ Scene 1 when he and another fairy discuss the disagreement between Oberon and Titania are having. The fairy gives us some indication of Puck’s character as she describes how Puck "frights the maidens of the villagery" and "Misleading the night wanderers" (Act 2.1‚ line 35). When Titania refuses to give up the boy servant that Oberon wants‚ he comes up with
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between rich and poor. Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world‚ and offers ideas for opening up opportunities to all. Author Howard French writes an article “Banishing Congo’s Ghosts” that is describing the poverty and violence in the bottom billion‚ specifically in the Congo. French considers different approaches to end the continuous vicious cycle of violence and poverty. In Collier’s the bottom billion he discusses the political and economic
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Captain Fluffy Bottoms Crazy Adventures There is a new country called Dylan’s Aisle. It is a beautiful island just off the coast of Aruba. It is a tropical 1’st world country where everyone poops outside in the jungle‚ everyone walks around naked‚ and we eat bugs and coconuts. It is a very peaceful place where no fighting is allowed. There would be daily yoga out on the beach for the women‚ as for the men‚ daily coconut football on the beach. If anybody wears clothes‚ we throw them in the 5000 foot
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Defining Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Perhaps one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays of all time‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play intended to be watched‚ rather than read‚ with an imaginative mind. It is a play that is in the genre of romantic comedy. The romantic aspects of the play are made possible with the characters of Theseus and Hippolyta‚ Lysander and Hermia‚ Helena and Demetrius‚ and Oberon with Titania. However‚ the comedy that is involved in this masterpiece is mostly
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Andrea Belloso Professor Nelson Monday‚ Wednesday‚ Friday; 1-3:50 12/12/14 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom paper There can be many social problems that could be brought upon reading this play. Wilson felt the need to state the social problems that were relevant to the era where there was a lot of racism going on and a lot of discrimination at hand. There was a lot of oppression by the white culture‚ racism‚ and the need of feeling powerless from the white people who believe to be better than the African
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perceptual systems are located at the bottom of the hierarchy‚ and the most complex cognitive (e.g. memory‚ problem solving) systems are located at the top of the hierarchy. Information can flow both from the bottom of the system to the top of the system and from the top of the system to the bottom of the system. When information flows from the top of the system to the bottom of the system this is called "top-down" processing. The implications of this top to bottom flow if information is that information
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