Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience
From the abstract of 'Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh', November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differ…
Poverty
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Review: 'Parasite' (2019)
In 2011, the Dalit rights scholar and activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (then only Kancha Ilaiah) addressed a room of 150 or so students of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. In the first 20 minu…
Curious Bends - the misery index, twin births, ethnic inequality and more
1. India's heat wave has been made worse by its humidity "But at least these places had a “dry heat,” and overnight temperatures have been falling into the 80s. Along the coast, temperatures…