Cash Transfers and Poverty
Embed from Getty Images The importance of evidence versus assumptions. By far the most popular post on the blog has been Do the Poor Become
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Storytelling and Politics: The Value of Empathy
In particular, stories of the “other” — the poor, racial/ethnic/religious minorities, etc. — provide evidence of a society’s true values and deepest insecurities. At the heart of the issue is the extent to which these stories describe the world as it truly is or as we hope/fear it is.