Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – The Police Are The Problem, Not The Solution
Another example of how expensive it is to be poor when it comes to the police and safety
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – Public Spending
Some examples of self-defeating public spending in the developing world involving transportation
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – How Many Cell Phones Do You Have?
How poverty sometimes forces people in Peru to have two cell phones for two different operators
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Change For A 50?
The complicated art of buying things in developing countries. You better have correct change!
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre – Ignorance Is Agony, Not Bliss
A story in Peru of a woman who can’t spell and lives in shame, though I see nothing but awesomeness in her. Ignorance is agony, not bliss.
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Books
The sad story of prohibitively expensive books in many parts of the world – and its propagation of the poverty cycle
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Security
A look at how a lack of security, sometimes brought on by poverty, contributes to the poverty cycle and general lack of well-being
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Water
Water – vital for human life – infinitely more expensive in the developing world
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – The World Is My Garbage Can
How the treatment of garbage contributes to the poverty cycle in the developing world
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Education
Education can be an equalizer and a way to climb out of poverty. Here is a school in rural El Salvador quite far removed from this ideal.
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Buying Power
A glimpse into how different life is when you have no buying power – and how that contributes to the difficulty of breaking the poverty cycle.
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Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Time and Infrastructure
A series of articles showing how expensive it is to be poor and why it’s hard to break the cycle. In this article, examples of time and infrastructure.
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