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Pay for empowerment? Part 1, the success
By: David A. Smith Here’s a novel idea: instead of creating complex programs to direct the poor to help themselves out of poverty, why not just pay them when they do? Would you keep your daughter...
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Pay for empowerment? Part 2, the urban challenge
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday we saw that Bolsa Familia, brazil’s signature anti-poverty program that pays families when they keep their children in school, has...
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Slums are alternate power structures
By: David A. Smith Slums are a world of alternate power structures – and when alternative power is threatened, it does not go quietly, as featured in an AP story picked up by Google News: Brazilian...
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Zeno’s Public-Consultation Paradox: Part 1, Longer than the time available
By:David A. Smith Zeno’s Public Consultation Paradox All public-consultation processes take longer than the time available, even when you take into consideration Zeno’s Public Consultation Paradox....
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Zeno’s Public-Consultation Paradox: Part 2, No matter how much time you allow
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post meta-illustrated Zeno’s Public Consultation Paradox – you might have thought I could cover the topic in one day’s posting,...
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